Epic calls itself India’s first browser. It’s built on the open-source Mozilla platform, but otherwise truly Indian: It is a creation of a team of Indian engineers at Hidden Reflex, a Bangalore-based software company founded by Alok Bhardwaj in 2007. And yes, it has an Indian touch to it from the word go: A logo inspired by the Indian tricolour, India-centric skins, themes and wallpapers, you name it.
(This story appears in the 13 August, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
i love this software
on Jan 26, 2011Thanks for your support! In terms of "lacking finesse" in the design--the black welcome page screenshot above does certainly lack finesse and that's why we changed it last week, you can see the new one at: epicbrowser.com/welcome.html Thanks and do send us more feedback so we can continue to improve Epic. Everything we've done has been done "totally in India" and we continue to give credit to everyone who's been a part of Epic including Mozilla and Add-on creators which include not just Google Indic (which we modified quite a bit incidentally) but many others--all are listed in Epic under "Help", "About Epic". This is the idea of open source software. According to a commenter, there would likely never be a "new" piece of software created again since every piece of software is built on other software e.g. is Google Chrome also stealing and not a new browser because it uses Webkit, Mozilla's Netscape Portable Runtime, and much much more open source software? We thank tremendously everyone who's been a part of Epic including Mozilla, Add-On Developers and our own team and we'll keep delivering an out-of-the-box browsing experience that is more "Indian", more secure, more private and more productive. For more customization, addons.mozilla.org is the spot or the Epic Apps sidebar where you can install 1500 sidebars into Epic. Alok, Founder and CEO Hidden Reflex
on Aug 10, 2010Epic claims this to be built "totally in India", but anybody who has used firefox and has installed well known add-on's will know that this browser "Epic" is nothing but "Epic stealing" .. or in more modest terms, "bundling" of pretty well known Firefox add-ons with Firefox itself. Nothing more. So this "pride" of "Indian product" is a lie and I guess people will come to know about this sooner or later. Just to add: Their multi-language input is from "google indic" addon for firefox. Their chrome like look also comes from an addon. Just search for them, it's all there at addon.mozilla.org ... for you to make your browser much more customized than this bloated piece of Epic!
on Aug 10, 2010