Rockmelt is a social web browser which is based on core technology of Google Chrome web browser. Like another social web browser, Flock, which has been in the field quite some time, Rockmelt attempts to embody Facebook into the web browsing experience.
The interface of Rockmelt has several features. It has a chorme-like awesome bar that put link address and web search together. An additional search field that acts like Google Instant search. Moreover, the two columns next to the content frame reside a Facebook instant messager and aggregated feeds of all your social network feeds including facebook, twitter, and so on.
One interesting behaviour of Rockmelt is that you can see your friend log into Facebook instantly and arrange the favourtie list for instant messaging. Personally, I have never found chatting on Facebook can be any easier.
However, like its biological big brother, Flock (which also change to Chrome based technology). I think the problem of Rockmelt is presenting too many information at the same time. It did solve the questions of how to integrate Facebook nicely with web browsing experience. However, considering the use of day-to-day base, the interface and the user interaction of using Rockmelt is a little bit too much of distraction and a little bit less of concentration. Users could shift their visual focus frequently when friends log into Facebook and social feeds get updating. Eventually, That is the tough question for Rockmelt to solve if they are ambitiously trying to fight over other web browsers, name: chrome, firefox, explorer, safari, opera...
In conclusion, Rockmelt is still a nice alternative option if you just want to kill some time by surfing Internet. Otherwise, maybe the original browser of Chrome will still be your liable tool.
