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Facebook fanatics should check out RockMelt, a free Web browser that integrates Facebook in its features and interface. It's based on the same open-source browser kernel as Google Chrome, so it's fast and versatile. RockMelt displays your friends, services, and other Facebook features right inside its interface. It's incredibly easy to share stuff with friends, too. While RockMelt works perfectly well as an everyday browser, it's specially configured for Facebook users, and its integrated features may be less appealing to others.

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Rockmelt was built on Google's Chromium browser framework (so the browser looks and acts a lot like Chrome), but it's designed to appeal to social media fanatics. You have to sign in through Facebook to use most of its features. But fear not-- while RockMelt collects data on your browsing habits, developers say they won't share that data with any third parties -including Google and Facebook.

RockMelt is a free social mediaweb browser developed by Tim Howes and Eric Vishria. The project is backed by Netscape founder 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 supportsWindows and Mac OS X platforms.

RockMelt is based on Google's open-source project Chromium, now on version 18. This is a cross-platform family of browsers 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.

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 What fans love about RockMelt will undoubtedly drive some people crazy. On the right side of the browser window, you'll see a thin strip with your Facebook friends' icons and notifications about whether they're available to chat. By clicking your friend's icon, you can chat in the browser window without having to switch back and forth between Facebook and your other tabs. On the left side of the browser window, you can choose "apps" for different Web sites that show notifications when new content has been posted. Sometimes, though, the information at the edges of the browser window can get distracting. When that happens, you can hide the information by clicking on the bell icon in the top right corner to silence the visual noise.

There are some other drawbacks to RockMelt as well. Any link you click on in the left hand bar (such as a link from RockMelt's CNN app) will be added to your Facebook timeline unless you turn the behavior off in the browser preferences. Also, many of the extensions that work in Google's Chrome don't work in RockMelt. RockMelt CEO Eric Vishria says the company is continuously working with developers of good Google Chrome apps to make versions of the apps that are compatible in RockMelt as well. He says today there are about 200 extensions for RockMelt.

Overall, the fledgling browser works really quickly. It did an even better job than Chrome at processing HTML5, coming in third after Firefox and IE9, and RockMelt took second in our JavaScript benchmark--scoring slightly lower than the winning Chrome. And it loaded our static, image-heavy page in a lightning-fast 4.15 seconds, second only to Opera.

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