Netscape creator launches new web browser

news article released on: 19 August, 2009

Netscape Communications founder Marc Andreessen has launched a new web browser, dubbed RockMelt along with two former partners, Eric Vishria and Tim Howes. Howes and Andreessen sold their company, Opsware Inc to Hewlett-Packard two years ago for $1.6 billion USD. Not much else is known about the browser but it appears that it will be designed in some way to work directly with Facebook. ...

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Morreale

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RockMelt... Interesting name for a web browser. Where'd they get it from?

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@Morreale, I too wonder where they got the name from.

I'm not sure why they would want to create a browser that would be designed specifically for a fad...err...I mean, facebook.

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Originally posted by Pop_Smith:
@Morreale, I too wonder where they got the name from.

I'm not sure why they would want to create a browser that would be designed specifically for a fad...err...I mean, facebook.

cant be much worse than Jean Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise, can it?

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Flock already serves this purpose of integrating with the various networking sites.

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Clever marketing tactic - using very similar colors to the firefox logo.

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What's that Marc? You're market share's increasingly shrinking? So you've copied the increasingly popular Google Chrome and started from scratch? I see.

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Nice article, but I thought Jim Clark was the founder and creator of the Netscape Browser.

TSRSteve

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The logo reminds me of when Vulcan was destroyed by Nero's ship in the new Star Trek film.

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Lets look at this name.. netscape.. spun open source into firefox.. which has all kinds of spinoffs.. iceweasel seamonkey sourgrapes hotnuts and who knows how many more variants..
Guess I know where it's coming from.. probably installs with a "mozilla" directory hidden somewhere. Why don't we all just use lynx and be happy?

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hermes_vb

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RockMelt? Just call it Lava...

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I would love to be one of the first testers of this new browser.

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