As with most things on the web, the insanity surrounding the initial launch of RockMelt died down quickly. The first reactions had some people screaming " eureka !", while others yelled "Flock 2.0!" The truth, as I see it after a few days of usage, is that the latest social web browser is somewhere in the middle of those two extremes. I know, it's boring to say, but RockMelt neither sucks nor is it awesome. It is much better than Flock already for one very important reason: it's about a billion times faster than Flock was. In the world of web browsing, that's all that really matters. Flock apparently thought — well, I don't know what Flock thought. It was just dog slow. And that was in an age when browsers themselves were much slower than they are now.