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Alternatives to Rockmelt

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The social browser. Rockmelt has been discontinued; the active alternatives listed here are maintained products you can switch to.

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Who it's for

Desktop users, especially heavy Facebook and Twitter users, who wanted their social feeds and messaging surfaced directly inside their web browser rather than in separate tabs.

What you get

RockMelt was a Chromium-based browser with dedicated sidebars showing live Facebook friends and chat and a Twitter/RSS feed, plus "Edges" for one-click sharing of pages to social networks. It launched as an invite-only beta in 2010 with backing from Marc Andreessen. In 2012 the company dropped the standalone browser and relaunched RockMelt as a mobile news-reading and content-discovery app for iOS and Android.

How it works

Users browsed the web as normal in the Chromium-based window while friend updates, chats, and a Twitter/RSS stream ran in fixed side panels, and shared pages via the Edge bar. RockMelt was acquired by Yahoo in August 2013, after which the app and browser were shut down and the team moved to work on Yahoo News Digest.

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Ranked alternatives

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01
Arc

Reimagined browser UI with spaces and split view.

Proprietary macOSWindowsiOS
02

Chromium browser with built-in ad and tracker blocking.

MPL-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
03

Google's Chromium browser with the largest extension ecosystem.

Proprietary WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
04

Privacy-default browser from DuckDuckGo.

Apache-2.0 macOSWindowsiOSAndroid
05

Microsoft's Chromium browser tied into Windows.

Proprietary WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
06

Independent Gecko-engine browser from Mozilla.

MPL-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
07

Privacy-hardened Firefox fork without telemetry.

MPL-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinux
08

Chromium browser with built-in VPN and sidebar apps.

Proprietary WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
09

WebKit browser supporting Chrome and Firefox extensions.

Proprietary macOSiOS
10

Firefox-based browser routing through the Tor network.

MPL-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinuxAndroid
11

Chromium stripped of Google integration.

BSD-3-Clause WindowsmacOSLinux
12

Power-user Chromium browser with deep customization.

Proprietary WindowsmacOSLinuxAndroid
13

Privacy-focused Firefox fork.

MPL-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinux
14

Firefox-based browser with vertical tabs and workspaces.

MPL-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinux

FAQ

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