Epic Browser: How epic is it??

Few hours ago, Hidden reflex, a Bangalore [India] based Software firm rolled out its first internet browser titled "Epic" based on Mozilla Open source code.
They claim it to be built for India and the only browser in the world with Inbuilt Anti-virus scanner! Eager to get my hands on anything new *and free* ;) I downloaded a copy this morning and true to their claim, the browser installed in under 12 seconds! Fast!

The outlook:

The moment I booted it up, I was set back by the cluttered look and loads of mini icons all over. But then a second careful ponder revealed them to be quite productive indeed. The User Interface features transparency like the Aero and Epic allows upto 1500 themes and customizations as of yet. The address bar is clean with good visible buttons on the left, definitely better than most browsers. The color scheme looks good if not great. Then there's all the bells and whistles you find on similar browsers with a bit of more functionality added in with well chosen plugins and extensions.

Performance:
The Startup time on my machine was some odd 7 seconds, which is ok for a firefox based browser. I ran a couple of Browser tests and here are the results.

On HTML 5 rendering tests, Epic scored a total of 143 points, nearly 10 points more than stock firefox but still slower than Google Chrome. Read my older html 5 browser wars here.

In Visal 3d javascript test, a 3d world similar to wolfenstein is rendered and you are to navigate around the cubicl. Epic again seemed to be a bit faster than Firfox's crawl. However, this is one place where the Chrome browser is blazingly fast! You can run the tests here. Thanks to webdevelopernotes for the browser test.

Acid2 tests completed with no problems proving that this Epic browser is built to last and is in references to standards.

Memory and CPU utilization:
Epic used about 83Mb of memory on idling, similar to firefox and about 20mb lesser than firefox during multi-tab browsing. Cpu utilization was 3% on idling and went upto 15% on load. Nothing serious here.

Extra features :
On the productivity side, Epic, by default installation, could be the most productive browser tool ever! Its got everything from to-do's, notes, alarm notifiers, inbuilt antivirus possibly from Eset Nod32, social networking site APIs, embeded video players, google backups and whole lot more. Epic even has a native Word processor inbuilt!! See the screen shot below.

In short, to wrap it up, Epic is a good browser filled to the brim with apps still keeping installation size under 40Mb. There might be few bugs around the browser because at one point when i was randomly testing out if all the features worked perfectly, I came across a glitch in bookmarks folder. Here's a screenshot of the error popup message.

Hopefully, the developers would patch it up soon enough. All said and done, this is one browser thats worth a try, and if you like it, Keep it! :)