Saturday, November 13, 2010

Is Rockmelt too connected to Facebook?

You are able to now connect your social network to your day-to-day browsing. The new beta-test browser Rockmelt makes that bridge. Rockmelt stores your browsing preferences online, so you are able to load them anywhere. Rockmelt is situated on Facebook Connect. This may be dangerous, given Facebook’s known privacy issues.

Chromium foundation on Rockmelt

One of Netscape's original developers, Marc Andreessen, backed the Rockmelt browser. The browser utilizes Chromium, the open-source basis of Google’s Chrome internet browser. This means it is an HTML5-compliant browser that’s capable of taking on anything the web throws at it. Users who want to try Rockmelt out have to ask for an invitation. This is because it’s nevertheless in beta.

Searching is cloud-based with Rockmelt

A user on Rockmelt can save browsing preferences. These preferences will be used, no matter what computer you are on, when searching. Your Facebook friends list and chat are right within the Rockmelt internet browser as Facebook Connect is integrated. Rockmelt also pulls the newest content from your bookmarked pages, letting you know when there is new content to read. Rockmelt developers explain that the program is more for those active in the web. It is meant for browsing pages which is passive.

Facebook and Rockmelt team up

A Facebook login being required on Rockmelt is one of the features that are most unique. Most of the interactivity of Rockmelt comes from and with your Facebook contacts, and your browsing details is stored with your Facebook identity. There are rumors of Facebook allegedly misusing personal information. This has brought on numerous to stop use. Keeping a control on who uses your personal data and the way it’s used is the only way to be safe. Make sure that linking your personal Facebook data with all your web-browsing history is something you would like before you decide to download and use Rockmelt.

Citations

Rock Melt

blog.rockmelt.com/post/1509448074/world-meet-rockmelt



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