Epic is a more secure and private chromium-based web browser from India.
Built-in Antivirus Scanner: Scan downloads automatically. Scan your system manually. Free.
Malicious Website Warnings: We'll warn you if you're about to visit a website known to host viruses or malware.
Anti-Phishing Protection: A big, bolded domain so you know if you're at citibank.com or citiphishingsite.com.
Privacy
One-Click Private Data Deletion.
One-Click Private Browsing.
Flash Cookie Deletion built-in. The first browser ever to kill them.
No Browsing Reports. We don't store your browsing or search data. Ever.
11 potential privacy leaks that Epic blocks
Address bar and URL tracking removed 1. No address bar suggest. 2. No url check. 3. Auto-translate removed. 4. No url tracker.
Installation tracking removed 5. Installation-id removed. 6. RLZ-tracking number removed. 7. Default updater removed. 8. Installation time stamp removed.
Error tracking removed 10. No alternate error pages. 11. No navigation error suggestions. 12. No error reporting.
Comprehensive, default private browsing mode • No history. • No third party cookies. • No auto-suggest. • No DNS cache. • No web cache. • No sync. • No autofill. • No alternate error pages. • No DNS pre-fetching. • No spell-check. • No automated “Most Visited Websites”. • Extensions blocked except for Epic Webstore
On close, epic clears all your browsing data • Databases • Extension states • History • Local storage • Current session • Favicons • Application cache • Shortcuts • Topsites • Visited links • Preferences • Media cache • Indexed DB • Jumplist icons data • Data related to current tabs • Web, Flash & Silverlight cookies • Pepper data • Origin bound certificates • History provider cache • Login data
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Azazel
Comment • over 6 years ago • 5 users agree • 0 replies
Didn't find anything about sources of this project, so I changed its license status to 'Free'. Also removed some gag from the description about being "powered by Mozilla" or something of that sort.
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• Negative comment • over 5 years ago • 1 users agree • 0 replies
The forum activity is quite low, the owners are very slow to respond to problems, and new posts have long delays until they appear in the forum. So I'm not very confident there's much support for this application.
I also noticed there is no updates to their blog.
Since they can't make money, I'm guessing they won't be able to sustain the product, and it will eventually fade. Maybe they'll open source the code.
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dhamodharan
Comment • over 10 years ago • 1 users agree and 1 doesn't • 0 replies
I only find this useful for addons: Web Developer, Ubiquity, Grease monkey, No Script and a few others. Other than that it's sidebar is fantastic compared to others
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• Negative comment • about 2 years ago • 0 replies
I tried it on my mac. In Mojave, it worked for one day and now I cannot force quit it. I removed the app and am waiting to restart the iMac.
Sigh. It seemed like a good match....
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cy6ernauti1us
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• Negative comment • about 1 year ago • 0 replies
More like an EPIC FAIL! -- here's a CinemaSins' style litany of fails for a programme which proclaims loudly and insistently of being a champion of privacy.
They only offer an streaming install - a small executable (called a 'stub') is available for download, executing which then causes the 'stub' to "phone home" and fetch the rest of the install.
Thats Privacy Fail even before you begin using this p.o.s.
This method of install will fail silently on securely locked down computers - like mine - meaning that it'll present a dialogue with a close button lulling you into thinking that it installed successfully, but there'll be no means to launch the programme - no icon on the desktop, quick launch toolbar, or the start menu. Nothing in the Program Files folders.
Also no error message is displayed. You'll be left troubleshooting on your own. And the only mention of this issue is raised as a thread on their forum their reply to which please judge for yourself:
> german.delendik: Guest
Can't find the Epic browser application (being approved)
Hello. Today I wanted to give Epic browser a try, and installed it. Then I decided to launch it but IDK what application launches it. Please help
>> alok_epicteam Administrator
Re: Can't find the Epic browser application (being approved)
Hmmm, there should be an Epic icon there to click. In case the online installer didn't work and Epic didn't get installed, please go to %localappdata% then delete the Epic folder there then try installing Epic again.
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Also, in order to seek help, this forum is the only resource. But you have to REGISTER agreeing to their terms and conditions and sharing an inordinate amount of personal information; help which should have been made available in a help file or a wiki not requiring registration -- another Privacy Fail!
This is in addition to the other fails called out in the reviews over here.
Verdict: Not even worth your time to evaluate or keep as a back-up browser on your computer. You're better off with K-Meleon instead.
Epic Browser was added to AlternativeTo by dhamodharan on Oct 19, 2010 and this page was last updated Jan 30, 2021. Epic Browser is sometimes referred to as Epic, Epic Privacy Browser.
Didn't find anything about sources of this project, so I changed its license status to 'Free'. Also removed some gag from the description about being "powered by Mozilla" or something of that sort.
The forum activity is quite low, the owners are very slow to respond to problems, and new posts have long delays until they appear in the forum. So I'm not very confident there's much support for this application.
I also noticed there is no updates to their blog.
Since they can't make money, I'm guessing they won't be able to sustain the product, and it will eventually fade. Maybe they'll open source the code.
I only find this useful for addons: Web Developer, Ubiquity, Grease monkey, No Script and a few others. Other than that it's sidebar is fantastic compared to others
I tried it on my mac. In Mojave, it worked for one day and now I cannot force quit it. I removed the app and am waiting to restart the iMac.
Sigh. It seemed like a good match....
More like an EPIC FAIL! -- here's a CinemaSins' style litany of fails for a programme which proclaims loudly and insistently of being a champion of privacy.
Thats Privacy Fail even before you begin using this p.o.s.
Also no error message is displayed. You'll be left troubleshooting on your own. And the only mention of this issue is raised as a thread on their forum their reply to which please judge for yourself:
> german.delendik:
Guest
Can't find the Epic browser application (being approved)
Hello. Today I wanted to give Epic browser a try, and installed it. Then I decided to launch it but IDK what application launches it. Please help
>> alok_epicteam
Administrator
Re: Can't find the Epic browser application (being approved)
Hmmm, there should be an Epic icon there to click. In case the online installer didn't work and Epic didn't get installed, please go to %localappdata% then delete the Epic folder there then try installing Epic again.
---end quote---
Also, in order to seek help, this forum is the only resource. But you have to REGISTER agreeing to their terms and conditions and sharing an inordinate amount of personal information; help which should have been made available in a help file or a wiki not requiring registration -- another Privacy Fail!
This is in addition to the other fails called out in the reviews over here.
Verdict: Not even worth your time to evaluate or keep as a back-up browser on your computer. You're better off with K-Meleon instead.