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RockMelt social web browser goes into public beta

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 10 comments
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First announced in November of last year and previously only available by invitation-only, the RockMelt team has announced that its social web browser is now in open beta. In development for more than two years, RockMelt is based on Google's Chromium browser, the open source project behind Google's Chrome web browser.

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arochester ·
Windows and Mac only...
tracyanne ·
I just read how you are supposed to use this browser, and as far as I'm concerned, no Linux version is no loss to me.
jdixon ·
All this social this and social that. Where's my antisocial browser?
Scott_Ruecker Story submitter ·
That would be your tinfoil hat and Amish lifestyle jdixon, you'll not meet a lot of people that way..;-)
Sander_Marechal ·
Quoting:Where's my antisocial browser?


Wouldn't that be Firefox 4 with the "Do Not Track" flag?
tmx ·
Yeah, but website have to support that feature and could choose to not implement it because they rather track you for marketing reasons.

Firefox have to make some indicator to notify the users, similar to SSL notification.
jdixon ·
> ...you'll not meet a lot of people that way..;-)

Actually, within their community, the Amish are very sociable. It's only outside influences they avoid.
jdixon ·
> Wouldn't that be Firefox 4 with the "Do Not Track" flag?

I'm hoping so, Sander. We'll see how well it works.
Sander_Marechal ·
Quoting:Yeah, but website have to support that feature and could choose to not implement it because they rather track you for marketing reasons.


True. But the point of the DNT flag is that you actively tell websites that you don't want to be tracked. Up to now, there is no way for a site to know this. There's good reasoning in this article: http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3927801/Moz...
Scott_Ruecker Story submitter ·
Quoting:Actually, within their community, the Amish are very sociable. It's only outside influences they avoid.


Isn't that true of all social groups? It is only the true loners that everyone dislikes..;-)

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