The First Indian Browser : EPIC

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BANGALORE, INDIA (GaeaTimes.com)- Hidden Reflex which happens to be Bangalore based firm has launched Epic browser in the market. Epic browser happens to be the very first Indian browser which draws it's element of inspiration from Mozilla Firefox.

                Just out of the bag, the Epic browser is based upon regional features that shall give all Indian web surfers a new reason to rejoice. The founder company Hidden Reflex was formed by America based engineer Alok Bhardwaj in the year of 2007. Following the launch of Epic browser, the company officials are planning to drop in one more browser in the market. The first hand users of Epic browser found the browser to be a smart one. Its bright colors catches your eyes at the very first instant. The Epic browser offers customizable options.

                 Epic browser lets you change the theme of the browser from a total of 1500 themes which are available. It also has several different applications bundled together at the sidebar which lets you access Twitter and Facebook easily. So its more of a widget kind of setup which mingles in fine tune with the ultra modern surfers. However, Epic browser allows you to launch only one widget in a single window. One of the rewarding features of Epic browser is it's built anti-virus which is a rare thing in a browser. It also supports a total of 12 different Indian languages along with a host of several different productivity applications which are beneficial for one and all. These includes the free word processor, my computer browser and the video sidebar. With the launch of Epic browser, Hidden Reflex has become the very first Indian firm to compete with other prominent browsers in the market.

                The so-called Indian browser Epic has just turned two days old. It runs on the well-known Mozilla platform. It reminds us of Flock, often called the browser for social media addicts. But Epic stands ahead of Flock in various ways. Here are the Pros and Cons of the new browser Epic:

Pros:

• Customizable: 1000+ skins and also you can choose from over personas
  
• Watch NDTV 24X7, NDTV इंडिया and NDTV profit online without any streaming problems
  
• Indic typing with the integration of Google transliterate
  
• Anti-Virus protection for both your computer and downloads optional
  
• Write: Create a word document and save it as a HTML file
  
• Snippets: Useful for taking screenshots of webpages – either select certain image or a paragraph and drag-and-drop it to the snippet sidebar or take a complete screenshot of a webpage
  
• Cricket news and live scores – Everybody knows India loves cricket and the Epic Browser is no exception
  
• Regional News, Events and financial events
  
• Daily masti – Jokes, quotes and gyaan of the day
  
• Epic video – Watch videos from youtube right on the sidebar
  
• My computer – Browse your computer directly from the browser; You can open upto 5 tabs in the Computer sidebar
  
• Social networks, E-mail accounts and Twitter in sidebar
  
• To-dos: A great alternative to rememberthemilk.com with alerts in
  
• Timer: Need not run to your cupboard to pick your stopwatch up with the timer feature in Epic browser
  
• Get directions with epic maps – Google maps integration
  
• Search for jobs – with indeed.co.in integration
  
• Book tickets with yatra and cleartrip integration
  
• Games: Time for some entertainment
  
• Backup files by logging in to your gmail account and now, initially, each file size is limited to 10 MB mark. It is expected to increase soon
  
• Collections: Save similar websites to one collection by clicking the collection icon next to the tabs. To load them, open the collections sidebar and click on the collection’s title
  
• Bookmarks: Just the same as in Firefox browser, Self-explanatory;
  
• History: Epic is very careful about your privacy, it has a private browsing icon and a clear browsing data icon in the address bar
  
• 10,000+ Firefox addons compatible
  
• Epic apps: 1500 sidebar applications, but we recommend you to keep the number of applications minimum so that the blazing speed of Epic will be maintained
  
• 10,000+ Firefox addons compatible

Cons:

• Showing of the sidebar even in pop-up windows is quite disgusting – I click the re-tweet button in a post and even then, the sidebar shows off in the pop-up also.
  
• Because it is a fully loaded browser, it takes more time to boot as compared to chrome, Firefox and safari. More the number of sidebar apps and add-ons more is the time taken to start the browser.
  
• No Home button in the address bar