India’s long ambition of being a part of the ongoing battle royale of web browsers is fulfilled today with the rolling out of Epic Web Browser, the first-ever browser of the country. This wonderful feat has been achieved by Hidden Reflex, a software and web application product startup based in Bangalore.
Built on the Mozilla platform, Epic has certain striking features that make it a unique browser altogether. The first time when I opened the browser for a firsthand experience, I saw a peacock with full blown feathers. And it was enchanting enough. Here is what Epic looks like:
Some of its unique features are:
• An inbuilt anti-virus, powered by ESET, whose NOD 32 product is very popular the world over
• India centric with support for 12 different Indian languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Urdu and Punjabi
• Indic app allows for typing in these Indian languages
• More than 1500 themes ranging from freedom fighters to film stars to represent the unity in diversity of the country
• A word processor to create or edit documents
• India specific news from popular publications
• Social Networking sites like Facebook and Twitter on the sidebar, apart from YouTube( watchable in a pop-up window), Gmail and Yahoo
• Other useful sidebar widgets include Travel, Stocks, Maps, and Jobs
• File backup and My Computer utilities
A team of 12 engineers have been coding and developing really hard since two years to come up with this indigenous, yet promising web browser. This is what Alok Bhardwaj, CEO of the company has to say, “Epic will be useful to all types of users, including hard-core multi taskers and newbies.”
All said and done, Epic does not seem to be another run-of-the mill browser. But it will definitely need some time, if not a lot, for it to make its presence felt in the market that is already being dominated by Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. What is your take on this new breed of browser?
You can downloaded Epic here.
Excelent browser.. what i loved the most is the text typing function~ Good Job Team!
Congrats,
all the best to the team ,
Excellent and Great work
its wonderful contribution from indian side. all applications inbuilt in this browser are very practical and it makes this browser one of the best in web world.
no browser so far has given much importance to the soft (ware) centric indians. epic is going to become an EPIC.
india joins browser wars? i really doubt the knowledge of the author in this matter. Its not a browser written from scratch.. its a customized compilation of mozilla firefox dude..
good luk for epic anyway..
@ Bobby. The browser is built on the Mozilla Platform, which is an open source. So, literally, its India’s first browser.
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We can’t call it India browser… it is just a rehash of the famous Firefox/mozilla code with paint and decoration…
I agree, it is a novel concept to integrate Virus scanner and social networking plugins and Indian languages, built into the browser… but let’s be modest. All new features like HTML5, WebM codecs etc, has to come from the Mozilla core! Let’s us not be unduly patriatic about India’s achievement. Let’s work more and talk less.
The heading for this blog should be changed to: “Epic: A browser customized for multi-lingual India”. That’s all to it. We are nowhere in the war.
I fully agree with Srinivasa one one his opinion posted on 23 july, 2010.