Netscape Founder Backs New Browser

wirelessjb writes to share that after a resounding defeat at the hands of Microsoft in the first major browser war of the mid 1990s, Marc Andreessen is looking to have another go at the market by backing a new startup called "RockMelt." "Mr. Andreessen suggested the new browser would be different, saying that most other browsers had not kept pace with the evolution of the Web, which had grown from an array of static Web pages into a network of complex Web sites and applications. 'There are all kinds of things that you would do differently if you are building a browser from scratch,' Mr. Andreessen said. RockMelt was co-founded by Eric Vishria and Tim Howes, both former executives at Opsware, a company that Mr. Andreessen co-founded and then sold to Hewlett-Packard in 2007 for about $1.6 billion. Mr. Howes also worked at Netscape with Mr. Andreessen."

Comments

You hear that Mr. Andreessen?

[neonprimetime]

... That is the sound of inevitability... It is the sound of your death... Goodbye, Mr. Andreessen...

Marc: My name... is RockMelt!

Re:You hear that Mr. Andreessen?

[Billy the Mountain]

Yep and it will feature a new scripting language called LavaScript.

Re:Chrome 2

[Clover_Kicker]

I imagine Marc Andreessen has enough change in his sofa cushions to keep a startup going for decades.

Its going to be off the hook!

[doroshjt]

It'll have built in twitter and facebook access. Totally social networkitized

Re:Its going to be off the hook!

[doroshjt]

You just don't get it, you'll be able to update and SEE your twitter feed and facebook page from your browser! No other browser lets you see facebook and twitter, its going to blow YOUR MIND!

Blink

[jointm1k]

Tell me Mr. Andreessen, what good is a new browser, if you are unable to . . . ?

it better support Linux

[FudRucker]

or I am going to kick your ass!

Re:Chrome 2

[Anonymous Coward]

Finally! I hate having to download all that spyware myself.

Re:It looks like a browser, it smells like a brows

[Itninja]

"Little else is known about RockMelt, and Mr. Vishria was unwilling to discuss it. "We are at very early stages of development," Mr. Vishria said. "Talking about it at this stage is not useful."

Good thing it was on Slashdot where nothing is useful.

Man burns left hand on stove, will now try right

[CopaceticOpus]

I just checked the date, I thought for sure it must be April 1st.

Marc Andreessen is jumping into the browser wars again? What's next, Ford announces a "re-imagined" Edsel?

Re:Tim Howes

[NNKK]

Well, now I know which browser to avoid. Thanks for the warning!

It seems...

[PCM2]

Someone has forgotten the first rule of Loudcloud.

Re:Chrome 2

[maxume]

So how bout you drop some of that wisdom on us Merlin, instead of just fucking telling us we are stupid.

Re:Chrome 2

[Atario]

Chrome is still showing HTML pages in tabs that you navigate trough with the virtual interface of links, a history to move through, etc, and a physical interface of the mouse and keyboard. In a window.

Ha! So true! Those hidebound sheep, still using HTML (instead of XIEJD), tabs (instead of buckets), links (instead of jellybeans), history (instead of triple-reverse history), a physical mouse/keyboard interface (instead of magnetic-induction frontal-cortex implants). In windows (instead of architectural glass blocks)! They really should get with the times.

Re:Chrome 0

[Anonymous Coward]

Red wouldn't fade into the background if you could see it. Red is such a frightening color because it's the color of blood, so every time you see it, it looks like something's bleeding a little. It's horrifying really. Be glad you can't see it.

Re:May I say

[Provocateur]

No, that's German for, 'The Seamonkey, The.'
 
No one who speaks German could be an evil man.