RockMelt is a new Social Web Browser hopping to get more users:
Nautilus Science and Technology News
By: Marco A. Ayllon
November 7, 2010
Tonight RockMelt formally launched a self-titled web browser that it hopes will make social browsing common. Interested on a idea of frequent sharing much like a group, the browser's always-on connection to Facebook both makes it possible to share any page through a single button but also to follow others. Their software always lists a chosen list of friends on a sidebar and supplies a quick glance at status updates, detailed feeds and Facebook chat for when both contacts are online at the same time.
Web hits and feeds are also faster, as a second sidebar provides access to favorite sites with a Safari-style notification when new content has come in. Search is simplified with search results that auto-populate and the option of live previews of the results before switching over. It can follow and refine search behavior over time to become more relevant, although the company stressed that it doesn't push the information online.
RockMelt used a plataform based and closely on Google's open-source Chromium engine and should compete with the most recent web browsers in speed and accuracy.
Th new browser RockMelt is currently in a testing phase but is accepting invitation requests through a Facebook connection for both Mac and Windows users. It hasn't given an estimate for when the finished browser should be available.
