Epic Browser: Reviewed by a fanboy!

Epic is a brand new browser specially made targeting Indian netizens. Complete with a tricolor orb icon and a default peacock theme, it promises to become the favorite of Indians. Bangalore based company Hidden Reflex has developed this browser based on the Mozilla technology. As there are already enough number of players in the browser market, the developers must have chosen to create Epic as an Indian specific browser. And it has turned out as a great browser, satisfying the needs of a typical Indian user.

Epic is all about India. Right from the icon you get to double click on the desktop to the themes to the sidebar news content RSS, everything is custom made with an Indian flavour. The sidebar is topped by the tricolor India Content icon, clicking which slides and expands the sidebar where all the news from India can be viewed as RSS and upon selection from a drop down menu bar, state-wise news headlines from region specific websites can be viewed and that too in your own language. With the Devanagari ‘ka’, there is the Indic Text Icon which enables the user to type in Indian languages. This feature is supported by the Google Transliteration Service. Also a drop down menu appears whenever the user proceeds to type in a textbox. Typing in your own Indian language is not going to be difficult task anymore. For sure, this is going to make the Indic script usage in the Internet to increase.

The Epic sidebar is built with shortcuts to all the features it has to offer. It has this word processor called ‘Write’ which opens itself in a new browser tab and the user is suddenly equipped with all those features needed for creating a formatted document. And there is the Snippets feature which can be invoked by clicking its own sidebar icon letting you grab anything from text to image in the webpage next to it and make a mash up of the stuffs and tag it as you want.

And the big surprise is, it comes with a built in Antivirus suit which lets you clean up your system right from the browser window and download virus definitions as they are released. Isn’t it a cool feature? This special and unique feature is powered by ESET.

Coming back to the colorful stuff, there are hundreds of wallpapers and themes. Each and every one of the collection comes with the Indian connection. With such awesome reflections of India in each and every bit, it keeps the Indianness intact no matter wherever the user surfs on the World Wide Web.

Also awesome are the video feature on the sidebar which lets you search and view Youtube videos right on the sidebar, the My Computer feature that lets you access your files right from the browser window, To-Do, Timer, file Back-up powered by Gmail, Collections feature that lets the user save a couple of open tabs as a group, online games and numerous apps to make the browsing experience comfortable and more efficient.

And not to forget the cool feature that enables the user to access their Facebook, Orkut, Gmail, Twitter, Yahoo! accounts and see the recent updates on the really handy sidebar. You can also make use of the Travel, Maps, Jobs features that fetch you online content based on your query on the sidebar.

Usual essentials like the elaborate bookmarking feature with yellow star buttons right next to the close button of every tab that is open, one click private browsing facility (in the toolbar, an orange icon with a lock), easy web history management, file download support, error console, and simpler Add-ons management among such other things are also there. Every new tab comes with a text box and button to make a quick custom Google search and results are shown along with the WOT (Web Of trust) rating identified by colored rings. The ring also appears on the address bar right next to the address of the current web page. If this is not enough, you can go ahead and kill the Flash cookies, Epic is the first browser ever created to kill them.

And the final verdict is: Epic is a cool new Indian browser with lots of awesome features and it has lot of potential to give the biggies of the browser market a run for their money.