Facebook Integrated With Browser?

Internet Explorer is still the world’s most popular internet browser, but the market share has fallen because of the sweet alternatives such as Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari. ReadWriteWeb And if the “reliable sources” believed, a new challenger is about to drop a token in the metaphorical metaphorical arcade machine playing the video game of metaphorical Browser War II.

The new browser is apparently called Melt Rock and it seems to be backed by Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape Communications (the company’s browser, Netscape Navigator, lost Browser War I to Internet Explorer) and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Facebook. With all these semi-facts in hand, it is not difficult to imagine that Rock Melt A Facebook-integrated browser.

The photo above you see a shot of an “early build” of the browser. My question is, is not everything that the above is already possible via other browsers? Why risk annoying Facebook users by forcing them to use a separate browser for this ultra-special friend bonding company function? In other words, instead of creating a Facebook-integrated browser, why not the browser integration within Facebook? On the other hand, Wired’s Fred Vogel Stein claims that Facebook is planning to make – or has already made – half Internet, where your credentials and resources your (Facebook) friends, their recommendations, their lives. If Rock Melt is the only browser in the second tap on the Internet, then that would be a huge advantage for Facebook. This could be Google Headache in beta. [technabob]