Is RockMelt the next browser of choice for all our neat gadgets? Social media has truly taken the web browser competition higher by more notches with this refreshing new browser called RockMelt. This is no faint departure from the current leading web browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. In fact, it may even threaten to diminish real-time Facebook and Twitter page visits even more. New year may just mean new browser for good, for some of the avid perpetually Internet-connected world population.
Picking up from 2007 Flock’s failed attempts to integrate social networking with one’s browser, RockMelt emerges as meaner and more promising. This might just mark a new chapter of evolution for Internet browsers by raising the bar yet again.
One of the best perks of using RockMelt is that there is no more need to login to social sites or tediously open too many tabs to keep them all together. It automatically puts together all your favorite stuff for you, consolidating login attempts and resulting to an overall quick and interactive online experience. Favorite just got redefined. From only having the option to save favorite pages, RockMelt will allow you to save your favorite friends on the side and just click away to share something to your BFF or your boss. The interface also leaves a lot of room for customization and categorization of your network.
The right and left edges are well-maximized, which makes use of the slim widgets on the sides to show a list of your preferred friends and other social media activities. The share button for Twitter and Facebook is strategically placed beside the URL bar for increased convenience.
More and more people are trying out its beta version because it is quite stable. Developers are quick to volunteer to the forefront the fact that it was also based from Chromium, Google Chrome’s open source inspiration. They also derived inspiration from Mozilla Firefox and other leading Internet browsing competitors.
Rockmelt has cloud for a backer. This means increased mobility of your entire online browsing package. You can access it and expect it to carry over all your settings anywhere. That is really something you get to say with the other browsers we are currently used to navigating with as of late. With a cloud backup like that, who needs silver linings?
The whole browser is designed in such a way that you drag and drop things as they happen to your friends and family, without having to leave the current page of your choice. It, more or less, merges internet browser, email, Facebook and Twitter together in a single page. If this gets embraced by the Internet majority, you just might find multiple clicks for communication to be a thing of the past. The only thing that needs to catch up are our mousing hands and fingers.
Beta version has been getting some common new user gripes, such as difficulty in staying logged in and not always seeing the widgets at the page edges. But it still holds promise and developers are quite hands-on in providing technical assistance through online and real-time help portals in Twitter and Facebook, no less.
