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Finally, the Gods have answered the call for a browser that humans wish would allow them to always stay connected with their Facebook friends without needing to be on the website the whole day. In all honesty, you can only be on Facebook so long that would you wonder what on earth am I doing here. But then RockMelt came around and answered that saying, you only need to chat with your friends and see what posts are relevant to them when you are involved in two-conversations with them. A smart feature that was implement in the left-bar chat Facebook chat system was active links, so when your friends post video links to YouTube in the chat they automatically appear in the chat window.

I’ve spent a week using this browser and have no gone back to either Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox. That must say a lot to understanding what everyday users really need in their web browsing experience. Yes, you can download plugins for various browser that allow you to interact with Facebook, except the interaction design is not built into the browser and plug-ins.  Thats where RockMelt shines in the long run understanding the need to stay in contact with friends without needing to always hit the refresh button on Facebook. 

On the left bar you have RSS feeds from links you provide including Facebook, Twitter and any other blog you love to indulge in on a daily basis. When you first launch RockMelt it asks you to Facebook Connect to your account which gives you the chat access on the left hand side. I found out that by hitting the Log-Off button when clicking your picture on the top left-sidebar restarts the RockMelt browser with no connection to Facebook. This made me feel pretty lonely not being able to see which one of my Facebook addicted friends were online at the time. 

The folks over at RockMelt have hit the nail on the head (sorry to be cliche and all) but it’s true. They step back and instead of just providing up with a new browser that offered super-secure connections not to say they don’t have it. Ended up providing the end-user with an experience that allows them to interact with friends and experience a web-browser that understand the social media trends. One of the cool things about this browser is that at first to get access with it, you must goto the RockMelt website and sign up for an invitation. But instead of RockMelt fully controlling the invitation process, they allow users with RockMelt already to see which Facebook friends have requested it. I wish they gave more invitations out but at this current time, I’ve been trying to get each and everyone of my friends to use this browser. Check it out at RockMelt.com and see if any of your friends out there have invitations for you to use this incredible browser. 

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