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Epic, Indian revolution for web browsing

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Bangalore, Jul 16: Browse India Browse! At last we also launched a web browser with the tag 'Made in India'.

India launched its first home made browser, Epic, on Thursday, Jul 15 in Bangalore.

Epic browser was powered by Mozilla browser and specifically made for India claims with Anti-Virus capabilities.

Epic browser has a dark default theme and it can be changed just by clicking on the 'skins' button on the left. User can also choose richness of India centric-themes.

User can click on India tab which will give feeds of all the latest news from Indian news sites and it will open up a new browser tab within the window.

Another exciting feature of Epic browser was the Indic Translation, which will open up a text box and when the user type in English, it will in real-time translate it to the chosen languages and user have all the major Indian languages in there.

Epic also has Facebook, Twitter and Orkut all built inside. Just login with the username and password and the user can see timeline and post messages and scraps.

Epic was developed by Hidden Reflex, a small scale software enterprise based in Bangalore. Epic browser can be downloaded free from epic browser website.

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Topics: internet, google, microsoft, mozilla, bangalore, internet browsers
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User Comments
mahesh 23 Aug 2010 11:43 am
some body answer ashima's question i have same problem
ashima 06 Aug 2010 06:27 pm
I've been using epic since it has been launched. Today i got a pop up message saying that updated version is ready, so i installed it. And now i'm unable to login to yahoo account. It says that browser is not supported. What should i do?? and i cant find any official place where i can send my complaint.
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