Rockmelt is a discontinued proprietary social media web browser developed by Tim Howes and Eric Vishria based on the Google Chromium project, incorporating social media features such as Facebook chat, Twitter notifications and widgetised areas for other content providers such as YouTube and local newspapers.
The Rockmelt web browser project was backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen.
[2] In April 2013, Rockmelt discontinued its desktop web browser, replacing it with a collaborative project bringing together social elements from various sources.
[5] Rockmelt was positively received by Tom's Guide, though they noticed that the RAM consumption was higher than Chrome or Firefox.
"The social networking integration is worlds better than Flock's, and ... there are at least some very useful features that RockMelt leverages.