![]() It’s not like the operating system battle where the decision to go with Windows, or Linux, or Mac OS X has a drastic effect on the tools and applications you can use. ![]() Blu-Ray battle, where selecting one technology over another determined which movies you might be able to rent or purchase. Sirius Radio where choosing one or the other defines what stations you receive. Aside from picking the bells and whistles you prefer and developing a comfort level with the UI (user interface) and conventions of one browser over another, it really just doesn’t matter which browser you use. Each has its pros and cons and they play technological leap frog with each other in terms of developing new features, but at the core a browser is a browser. What do they all have in common? Well, they actually have much in common, but one of the most glaring similarities is that they’re all free. There are also other browsers such as Opera, Apple’s Safari, and Google’s Chrome crowding the mainstream browser market. It has steadily eaten away at Internet Explorer’s market share and recently surpassed 1 billion total downloads. Firefox, the phoenix from Netscape’s ashes has emerged as the strongest challenger. These issues have led many to revolt and seek alternative web browsers. Microsoft has had its issues with security and with complying with Web and Internet standards with Internet Explorer. It sounds like a daunting undertaking which leads me to wonder- why? If RockMelt ends up being the greatest web browser ever built and is victorious in the browser market share war, what exactly does it win? The idea, supposedly, is to build a new browser from the ground up rather than just re-engineering the existing browser engine model. ![]() Little is known about RockMelt at this point aside from rumor and innuendo. ![]() ![]() Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, is reportedly backing a startup called RockMelt that is throwing its hat into the increasingly crowded ring of the browser wars. ![]()
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