The last one hour I spent on installing and customising epic broser, quite possibly the first serious effort for an Indian browser. When I clicked on the download button on their home page, I was not expecting much. Especially since I had tried the all new FF4 beta yesterday night, only to uninstall it in 5 minutes.
Well it was a pleasant surprise that awaited me. The array of apps was the first one to captivate me, then came the expanding sidebar. It functions as a browser inside a browser. I don't know whether mozilla is already having an extension for that. (Just checked there is more than one for that). With the aid of this sidebar I can watch a youtube video or watch NDTV on my left while simultaneously browsing other pages. Then there is an inbuilt indic language engine which enables typing in regional language using google transliteration. I had spent half an hour in the morning adding two extensions for the same in chrome and FF. Then there are many more apps for facebook, gmail, yahoo etc. There is also an impressive list of Indian skins to choose from. I tried it with munnar , raja ravi varma and ems. The skins are good but not excellent. There is also many more politicians, landscapes and actors available as wallpaper and skin. There is another impressive app for bringing the news from nation and regions.
It is not to say that the browser is not having its limitations. It is taking much longer time to start up, possibly because of the huge number of already available add-ons.There is only NDTV available on the liveTV tab, I guess there is some arrangement for the same with NDTV. Beyond the initial curiosity of sidebar, I am not sure whether there is any substantial additions to FF. How will I be able to update this product in tandem with the updates of FF?. And can people write apps specifically for the epic browser?. I hope so
there is a long way ahead for the team, however as one of my friends just posted in his fb profile it's a
A BIG THUMPS UP TO EPIC BROWSER
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