|
Do you think Rockmelt, a new web browser, is better than Safari?
This question is marked "community wiki".
|
|
I wish I could comment. Still waiting on my invite I requested over a week ago... They must think my Facebook is boring.. |
|
I actually like RockMelt, because I've been looking around for a really good RSS Reader, and I've found it to be the best so far. I like how it integrates Facebook (and other websites) into it. I was accepted Wednesday, but I waited to download it Thursday (because of my packed schedule). 1) You shouldn't judge a browser based on whether or not it can afford to provide proprietary codecs. 2) Chrome does in fact come with H.264 and AAC codecs out of the box, it is Chromium that does not. Besides, on Ubuntu it's as easy as installing an extra package for the missing codecs for Chromium. |
|
I think a lot of browsers are better than Safari... (just my opinion though). Rockmelt is probably the best browser I've used for a long time, it's like Flock but a million times better. It's built on Chromium which is at the moment probably the best "frame" for a browser. |
|
I am satisified somewhat with the browser although I am not a big social media guy I do like the fact that you dont have to go to the actual sites Twitter and Face book to see updates and respond to tweets and chat with your Facebook friends . I dont speak very often to the friends I have on both but love the integration and the RSS feeds are great as well. I am still learning how to use it to my advantage. I am busy most of time with school online and it can become somewhat distracting but love it nonetheless. There are some bugs that I dont care for. For example it is a memory and CPU hog once it is open for a long time and you have to restart it to regain that memory. I know future updates will address that and hopefully they will upgrade to maybe chrome 8 -I heard that they are running on the Chrome 6 platform so there are those security issues. I have been also playing around with the extensions and themes. they work all right but are somewhat sluggish in my opinion |
|
I love RockMelt. The only glitch I've found so far is that if I want to get online in a venue other than my home, it actually seems to want to launch directly from Facebook (don't ask me, I'm not technical!) so I have to start another browser first to be able to hook into the wifi. I hope that makes sense, I'm awful at explaining! |
|
I got my RockMelt approval within 24 hours... I have to say that I do like it very well. I have added my FB and Twitter along with some other sources I follow close and it's really smooth. I give it a thumbs+ up and I have been using it 5 days. |