RockMelt is
an open source social media web browser developed by Tim Howes and Eric
Vishria. The project is backed by Netscape founde r Marc
Andreessen. RockMelt integrates a technique for surfing the web that
focuses on Google Search and Social Media, in
particular Facebook and Twitter
The
browser was launched in private beta on November 8, 2010 and now it is
in the public version beta. Until March 2011, users were required to
connect their Facebook account to the website in order to download
it. RockMelt supports Windows and Mac OS X platforms.
RockMelt
is based on Google’s open-source project Chromium, now on version 14.
This is a cross-platform family of browsers (available for Windows, Mac,
and Linux) that use the open-source web layout engine WebKit—jointly
built by Apple, Google, and the open-source community—but have the
JavaScript engine replaced by Google’s own V8, also open-source.
