Disclaimer: I am not saying this browser sucks, I just want to point out some negative features that are most likely going to keep me from using it, for now. I might post a consecutive post with my features I do like

Direct Chrome Plugin:
First off, I am not a developer. I don’t know how programs are written, and the process it takes. But RockMelt was developed with Google Chrome as the backend. Now as a Chrome user, I have plenty of plugins and bookmarks all nicely organized.  To utilize all my Chrome plugins I already use, I need to go and reinstall all of them.  How much harder would it be to have RockMelt installed into an existing Google Chrome as a plugin? Also, it must be using an old version of Chrome because I can’t sync my bookmarks and info to my Google Chrome.

Only 2 Social Networks:
I understand that development is early for this, and new features will come out over time (which makes having it as a plugin much easier to update).  But something I see lacking is that Facebook and Twitter are the only social networks supported for posting to. I would love to see some features that would allow me to post to other social sites including, but not limited to:

• Posting to this blog (WordPress)
• Facebook page support
• Share to open FB chat
• Email (not social, but would be nice)
• Digg
• Posterous
  (Is it just me, or is it impossible to just update your status to your social networks? I can’t find a box to just type a new status for Facebook or Twitter.)(Okay, I figured out how to do this, you click the little picture on the top left.)

Also, I find it very annoying that if you are chatting with someone via Facebook chat in RockMelt, and also on Facebook.com, your chat opens twice.

Google Reader
I don’t know what you all use for your RSS readers, but I use Google Reader for my feeds. Now with RockMelt, they have RSS support built right in.  The reason I use GReader is that I am able to access my feeds anywhere, and they update that I read them.  If I read a few posts on my phone, then come back to my computer, and see that I have those same posts unread on RockMelt, that seems a bit redundant. I want to have everything synced for me.

Twitter Support
I am an avid Twitter user, and I really feel that features in their Twitter “app” do not offer many of the features that I would like to see and that my other Twitter apps offer.  Some of those features are:

• Conversation View
• Old RT feature
• Update profile
• Location Support
• User Profile View (you can’t even view a profile inside the app!)
• Twitter Search (You can only search the tweets of those you follow)
• Lists
  (I better stop here, but there are more)

Import
This might just be a bug, but RockMelt couldn’t even pull in my settings from Google Crome propperly.  My bookmarks bar and other bookmarks were all jacked up and I now have to go in and redo them all manually.

Overall
This browser could really be successful over the years, but they need to really figure out a few things. Anyone from RockMelt, I am more then happy to discuss with you these in detail if it could help with the overall application.  I really see that RockMelt could be a great browser (plugin) to the already amazing Google Chrome.

What are you thoughts on RockMelt, or would you like to try it out? I have a few invites I could send out, so let me know! Leave your thoughts in the comments below.

Steve

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