RockMelt is a new web browser that integrates with Facebook so that every page can be quickly shared and every post from a friend discovered. RockMelt is built using Chromium, which is the open-source web browser project that underlies Chrome; so it performs almost as well as the speedy browser that Google built. Rockmelt is a discontinued proprietary social media web browser developed by Tim Howes and Eric Vishria based on the Google Chromium project, incorporating social media features such as Facebook chat, Twitter notifications and widgetised areas for other content providers such as YouTube and local newspapers. RockMelt Browser Download - Full Version Free Download Latest Softwares for Windows.

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Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s Inter Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari, Opera and many! How many browser you want? Why are they so popular? Well, you all know all these are very popular browsers out in market and very much up for browsers war!

Nov 07, 2010 What RockMelt is focused on is around people’s web usage – which centers on consuming content, social sharing and social networking. RockMelt’s quest reminds me of another grand attempt to take on the browser establishment, called Flock, which, despite great social aspirations, has had a tough go of it thus far. Jun 03, 2011 Download RockMelt 1.2.189.1 for Windows for free, without any viruses, from Uptodown. Try the latest version of RockMelt 2011 for Windows.

There are hundreds of browsers out in market and some of them are cloned browser which uses above mentioned browser’s engine and adds some new features into it to attract users. Flock and India’s Epic browser are few among them.

Well, here come one more new child into market from the c0-founder of first widely-used web browser, Netscape. RockMelt is a social media web browser developed by Tim Howes and Eric Vishria and backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen.

Just a week back Rockmelt team released first beta browser. RockMelt is fast, secure, and stable because it’s built on Chromium, the open source project behind Google’s Chrome browser. It’s your browser – re-imagined and built for how you use the Web.

RockMelt does more than just navigate Web pages. But it will be very good competitor for desktop version of Facebook application Fishbowl by Microsoft! Let us get into our main topic, features of Rockmelt browser,

1. Welcome to Rockmelt

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What was that? Shocked? Yes, as said before Rockmelt is a Social media browser built mainly for Facebook users. You can say its a Facebook friendly browser. Well, login and start using Facebook..OOPS Rockmelt 🙂

2. Facebook Chatbar

As you can see in the image, on the left hand side Rockmelt browser provides a Facebook chat bar. Its a option bar which will be explained later. Yes, you can chat with your friends while browsing other page.

But only disadvantage of this bar is, number of displayed user is dependent on your browser resolution. You can’t see all FB friends 🙁

3. Facebook Chat

Here is the sample of Rockmelt’s Facebook chat. This Facebook chat window will be popped out and you can have separate chat window dedicated to FB chat 🙂

4. Facebook Status Preview

Now you can see what was your last Facebook status update without opening Facebook.com! Just a hover on your Facebook DP on top left corner pop-up your last status update.

5. Facebook Friend’s Status

Not only your status update, you can even see your friends status without visiting their page! Just a hover on your friend image and see their status just as in above image.

6. Create Own Facebook Friends Group

Just similar to Facebook Groups you can create your own list of Facebook friends and easily check whether are they online or not.

7. All friends or Favorite friends?

Confused how can you access your favorite friends list and all friends list? Its easy. Click on Star for your favorite friends and green dot for all friends list.

8. Write on Friend Wall or Send a Message

While chatting with your friend, to send a message or write on friend’s wall what you will do? Search for that friend, scroll their, write on their wall! hectic write? Use Rockmelt and chat, write on their wall and send a message with a single click.

9. Update your status on Facebook and Twitter

Enough of writing on friends wall and sending message and chatting.. Now update your status as well. Just click on your DP on top-left corner and update your status on Facebook and Twitter. Remember, you should login to twitter before updating status on twitter.

10. Facebook Updates

Not only left side bar Rockmelt has one more right side bar. This bar is called as app edge. One of the option on right hand side is Facebook updates.

11. Facebook Wall

Now you can see your wall without login into Facebook 😛 Just a click on Facebook updates button and here is your Facebook wall.

12. Facebook Notifications

Who wrote on your wall? Who poked you? Who tagged you in some image? Missing all these notification while browsing other pages? Here is just a small button which gives you all this on single click. But notifies you with numbers on it 🙂

13. Rocking Share

Now you share the website which you browsing right now by just a single click. Like a site or story? Click “Share” and BAM – link shared. You can use it on any site to post to Facebook or tweet about it on Twitter. It’s just one click away. That easy.

14. Friend Search through URL bar

As we said before, this Facebook Chat bar is limited to your screen resolution and cannot be scrolled or edited. If this is case how can search for your friend and find their he/she is online? Simple, just start typing your friend name and rockmelt will suggest friends names just like in image.

This option is even available in Google Search box 🙂

15. Twitter Inside Rockmelt

As we informed you before while sharing your status on twitter, you need to be logged into Twitter. But where you will login? Web version? No need. Just a click away you can login into twitter. This shortcut is available in right edge/bar.

16. Twitter Tweets

Logged in? Cool 🙂 Now you can click on the same twitter button to get your twitter timeline.

17. Twitter Timeline

When you browsing your other websites this twitter API will get updated background and shows how many new tweets you haven’t checked.

18. Twitter Retweet

Just similar to twitter website, this API gives an option to retweet any tweet.

19. Twitter Share

Similar to Facebook share you can even share your updates on Twitter.

#20. Multiple Twitter Account

One great advantage of this Twitter API is you can login into multiple twitter account and get both the timelines in single place 🙂

21. Add Feeds

Only only Facebook and Twitter, this browser even has facility of adding feeds of the website you visit daily for updates. This feed API even updates you by checking whether the website you visited had feed option in it.

22. Pop-up Google Search

No need to open new tab for Google search any more. When ever you search Google it will just pop up a small window by keeping you on same website.

23. Enable and Disable Edge/sidebar

You can enable and disable both edges anytime if you don’t like. But all the services will be running in background.

24. Edges Options

25. Import Multiple Bookmarks

You can import multiple bookmarks into rockmelt as shown in the image.

26. Default Ad Blocker

Rockmelt has a default ad blocker and one more advantage.

27. Form Auto Fill

As Rockmelt is built using Chromium code, it also added form auto fill features which we saw in Chrome 6 features. You can even import auto fill data from chrome.

28. Chrome features

Well Rockmelt retrieved some features like cut, copy, paste, incognito and zoom options from Chrome.

29. Chrome Extensions

Well Chrome users can easily make a switch to Rockmelt as the look and feel is just similar to Chrome.

You can use the same extensions which supports Chrome browser and these extension will be displayed in right hand edge. As shown in the image on right side.

30. More shortcuts

Rockmelt has added shortcuts to most visited sites, recently closed sites and history. It displays small thumbnail below most visited sites and recently closed tabs. And for history it displayed browsing history in new tab just similar to with url chrome://history/.

31. Pin website

Like a website you visited? You can pin it and use it anytime.

32. Chromium Engine

As you all by this time Rockmelt is a browser built using Chromium open source code which Google Chrome is using.

33. Rockmelt Logout

Well we came to end of this post and lets log off 😛 Logging out from Rockmelt will log you off from Facebook and will close all the opened tab as well. Even exit does the same but it wont log off from Facebook.

Huh!. Tired? Well Rockmelt has got lot of features and it may enter browsers war soon with Chromium codebase.

Rockmelt team says

Today, the browser connects you to your world. Why not build your world right into your browser?

Here they are mention world to Facebook and Twitter which has got more than half of the world’s population in their pocket. That’s all for now. Watch out for more info about Rockmelt.

Now! Did you like Rockmelt? Which feature made you go crazy? DO you think it will be competitor for other browsers? Please share your thoughts 🙂

Rockmelt is a discontinued proprietary social mediaweb browser developed by Tim Howes and Eric Vishria based on the GoogleChromium project, incorporating social media features such as Facebook chat, Twitter notifications and widgetised areas for other content providers such as YouTube and local newspapers. The Rockmelt web browser project was backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen.^[2] As of April 2013, Rockmelt discontinued its desktop web browser, replacing it with a collaborative project bringing together social elements from various sources.^[3]

Rockmelt was created by Rockmelt, Inc., located in Mountain View, California.^[4] The final version, 2.2.0, was released on February 9, 2013.

On August 2, 2013, Yahoo! acquired Rockmelt. Rockmelt apps and the website were shut down after August 31, 2013. Yahoo! plans to integrate Rockmelt’s technology throughout various products.^[5]

History[edit]

• November 7, 2010 - Rockmelt for PC and Mac launches in private beta ^[6]
• March 11, 2011 - Rockmelt for PC and Mac launches in open beta ^[7]
• April 19, 2011 - Rockmelt for iPhone launches ^[8]
• October 11, 2012 - Rockmelt for iPad launches ^[9]
• December 20, 2012 - a new Rockmelt for iPhone launches ^[10]
• April 11, 2013 - Rockmelt for Web launches ^[11]
• June 19, 2013 - Rockmelt for Android launches ^[12]
• June 27, 2013 - Rockmelt for Windows launches ^[13]
• August 2, 2013 - Rockmelt is acquired by Yahoo^[5]
• August 31, 2013 - Rockmelt mobile applications pulled off of web^[5]

Reception[edit]

Rockmelt was positively received by Tom’s Guide, though they noticed that the RAM consumption was higher than Chrome or Firefox. The browser's “Edges” were called “the three most prominent features of the RockMelt browser”.^[14]

Notebook Review, while comparing Rockmelt to Flock, gave Rockmelt 4.5 stars out of 5, with the absence of extension support being the most noticeable issue with the browser. “The social networking integration is worlds better than Flock’s, and ... there are at least some very useful features that RockMelt leverages. The news feed really is well done, and the Facebook handling is certainly better than Flock.”^[15]

In a beta preview by Techcrunch, Rockmelt received mixed reviews mostly due to the browser using Chromium as its base, with a number of concerns whether the browser would find its audience.^[16]

In a short review by PCWorld, Megan Geuss stressed the overall Facebook integration of the browsers, which would not work for every user, while also praising the performance of Rockmelt: “the fledgling browser works really quickly. It did an even better job than Chrome at processing HTML5”.^[17]

A PCMech review of Rockmelt stressed how easy it was to share content via Rockmelt, and the browser received praises for the option to add additional feeds. “It is easier than manually going to Twitter or Facebook and is most certainly easier when managing feeds for the web sites you visit often. On top of that, it looks good.”^[18]

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References[edit]

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2. ^Helft, Miguel (2009-08-13). 'Netscape Founder Backs New Browser'. The New York Times.
3. ^Ong, Josh (11 April 2013). 'Rockmelt Abandons Social Browser, Launches New Web Feed and iPhone App'. thenextweb.com. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
4. ^Facebook community page showing Rockmelt, Inc.'s headquarters
5. ^ ^abcGeron, Tomio. 'Yahoo Acquires Rockmelt Social Browser, Will Shut Down Apps'. Forbes.
6. ^'World, Meet Rockmelt'. Rockmelt blog. Rockmelt. 2010-11-07. Archived from the original on 2010-11-08. Retrieved 2010-11-09.
7. ^'No more waiting in line — RockMelt now in Open Beta!'. 2010-03-11. Archived from the original on 2012-12-02.
8. ^Geron, Tomio (2011-04-19). 'Rockmelt's New Mobile Browser--A New Mobile Home Screen?'. Forbes.
9. ^Levy, Steven (2012-10-11). 'Rockmelt Thinks You're Ready for a Modern Mobile Browser'. Wired.
10. ^'Rockmelt finally brings its deconstructed browser to the device I wanted it on back in October: My iPhone'. 2012-12-20.
11. ^Copeland, Michael V. (2013-11-04). 'Marc Andreessen and Rockmelt Are Betting the Desktop Has a Future'. Wired.
12. ^'Rockmelt brings the Best of the Internet to Android'. 2013-06-19.
13. ^'Microsoft showcases developer opportunity on Windows Azure, Windows devices'. 2013-06-27. Archived from the original on 2013-07-31. Retrieved 2013-07-30.
14. ^'RockMelt Browser Guide'. Tom’s Guide. November 15, 2010. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
15. ^'RockMelt Social Browser Review'. Notebook Reviews. December 28, 2010. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
16. ^'Between A RockMelt And A Hard Place: The Quest For The Social Browser'. Techcrunch. November 11, 2010. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
17. ^'RockMelt Browser a Swift Choice for Social Media Junkies'. PCWorld. November 12, 2011. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
18. ^'RockMelt Browser Review'. PCWorld. November 18, 2010. Retrieved 18 November 2015.