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Netscape Founder Backs New Browser

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28 pointsmjfern13 comments

So basically an app oriented browser like chrome but without a windows or mac version yet?

I just can't picture people choosing this browser simply because it integrates with facebook.

They are very vague about what they say it is, there are basically no real details in the article.

This is healthy, better competition on the browser market should result in the platform becoming solid. I'm hoping we don't see the fragmentation that we saw in the OS market. This time round it looks more like a race: at least while the standards are ahead.

Isn't this a little like Active Desktop meets flock?

Facebook browser that is: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rockmelt_netscapes_andr...

Also, apparently they own http://me.lt/ which is a newly configured version of https://scalr.net/ (Cloud Computing on top of EC2).

The Wall Street Journal articles quotes the founders to deny that it is a Facebook browser. The thing that makes the most sense is a browser that like Google chrome has a lot of HTMl5 hooks so it can do normal operating system activities like File Management.

Looks like Andreesen is at it again. He's got the experience, the name, and ofcourse the cash to make a BIG impact in the browser world. Has learned from the mistakes he made with hit browser, NETSCAPE, and from the "browser wars" with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. He's got some big competiton in the search engine world though, with ofcoruse Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. But, I think he can get it done. Check it out at http://www.rockmelt.com. Really cool logo. See any resemblence to the Netscape logo?

Funny, rockmelt doesn't load right in Opera.

Also, webkit (Chrome & Safari) seems to render the background JPEG in a slightly browner color than Firefox (on Mac OS X) - which is different from the page background. Design geeks these guys are not.

Does anyone else think the logo looks like Firefox exploding OmniWeb from the inside like the end of The Matrix?

I cannot resist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0QKTT0YbRQ

I'm glad to see Parakey went somewhere after all.

For a while it seemed that Facebook had killed Parakey, except for the redesign that made Facebook look more operating system like. I think the browser war is still relatively wide open assuming the eventual crash of Microsoft. Whatever these guys make is going to be interesting.

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