Now when people using Rockmelt and click to chat with someone on the Facebook site, the chat window will open in the Rockmelt browser, not in the Facebook site.

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Those things are suddenly gone and, with them, the occasions to walk down the hall to chat with someone, or grab a colleague for lunch.

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You can move the handset (and its front-facing camera) up and down as it speeds along any flat surface, responding to commands from someone on the other end of a Skype video chat.

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