Friday, July 16, 2010

Epic Browser - Review





Epic Browser (10.6 MB) is customised version of Mozilla Firefox web browser for Indians which includes language support and antivirus.


Installation: Quick installation. Requests importing bookmarks after installtion completes.


Screenshot:
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Features:

  • Antivirus: Powered by ESET, virus definitions required download, 25MB as of today.
  • News: Fetches feeds from quality Indian websites
  • Transliteration Tool: You may type in english and get text transliterated to your local indian language.
  • Word Processor: integrates well with the transliteration tool. Includes basic formatting.
  • Web Snippet: Drag and drop text, images or webpage to save them locally. 
  • Youtube Search: You can save custom playlist and search youtube videos.
  • File Explorer: Lets you browse your files.
  • To-do List and Timer
  • Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, Gmail and Yahoo on sidebar.
  • Google Maps, Travel info from Yatra.com
  • Job Search from Indeed.com
  • Online File Backup utility


PROS: 
  1. Feature rich. 
  2. Good browser for non tech savvy people who do not want to customize.
  3. Fast and loads pages quickly. 
  4. Ability to add firefox addons.
CONS:
  1. This browser is almost like Rebranded Firefox with pre-installed addons.
  2. Everything on the sidebar can get cramped. 
  3. Too much to read whenever I click a sidebar app. It takes a lot of time to scroll apps on the sidebar.
  4. The background wallpaper needs be of a higher resolution.