Epic's previous incarnation was built on Mozilla. We like many have been unhappy with Mozilla's development and performance. Moreover, even though Mozilla is supposed to support all Mozilla projects, we got zero support from Mozilla...less than what we got from Google engineers/Chromium and believe me that was very little. (Mozilla is supposed to be non-profit but they do get $400+ million a year from Firefox in Google payments so that's their complete focus & FF is very successful and a great product too.) 100s of millions of users have switched to Chrome/Chromium because it continues to outperform other browsers so we also had to finally work with Chromium as well. That's in brief why we developed on Chromium.

You seem to think building a browser is really easy. And that privacy is really easy. Good luck...we've been working on this for about a year...would love to see your browser, please email it to me! alok at hiddenreflex dot com

Search query and rough geographical location. Google & others track you in order to target non-search ads. Search terms (with a rough geographical area) are MORE than enough to target search ads!

Thanks, we can allow #1 and will work to add such links though that install process is good for many users with slower connections who'd like to quickly start a background installation process. #4 should have been removed -- will be removed soon though later we would like to offer a privacy-friendly sync service. #3 any code you want to see, just write us, Epic is open source but we just haven't had a chance to release all code in an organized way, chromium is huge. #2 will try to alert the user in-product with more details on the proxy, thanks!

Sorry -- great catch! Somehow the Sync wasn't removed in the release version. Will remove it in an update very soon. Thanks! We don't have our sync service at this point so it was meant to be removed. Chromium is designed to be somewhat easily brand-able such that changing the name once changes it in many places -- removing the need for a lot of cut&paste (though quite a bit is still necessary actually). Will try to see why google analytics is being pinged -- it did used to run on our search page but has been long removed -- will investigate, thanks! Our domains auto-renew every year. Nothing to worry about!

The Epic Browser has been around for 3+ years and has hundreds of thousands of users -- probably more people than have even heard of epic.org. Epic's previous incarnation wasn't completely focused on privacy hence we're promoting it now as the Epic Browser by Hidden Reflex. We had to keep the Epic name for various reasons. I can't speak for Iron, but I don't think it's correct to say they simply wanted to make ads from the download page.

Coming soon!! Write us if you want the whole source, any files, anything now!! Sorry for the delay -- we're a small team and want to release it in an organized way, just have been too busy in getting the product out and Chromium has a LOT of files!!!

Please let us know any Chromium backdoors!!! We have found MANY privacy leaks in default chrome/chromium and closed them...but if you find any backdoors, any privacy leaks we may have missed, let us know! Thanks -- alok, epic browser team , alok at hiddenreflex dot com

We've been Epic for awhile now (had a previous incarnation:-). It's difficult to hide font lists from Flash, and disabling flash effectively "breaks the internet". We block many fingerprinting scripts though -- and are working on methods that would make your browser un-fingerprintable but it's very difficult (that's why no one has done it!). With your support, I'm sure we can do it but it's not going to happen overnight (or again someone would have done it already!).

Epic is open source code. Sorry, we're a very small team and Chromium is a HUGE code base and we've made tons of code changes all over the place. We've been working very hard to get to this release, and haven't had a chance to release our code in an organized way. Anyone who wants to know any changes or see any code is more than welcome to e-mail me anytime -- alok@hiddenreflex dot com . Sorry for the delay again,

Epic blocks loads of fingerprinting scripts which is quite effective in terms of general surveillance that goes on. To otherwise make your browser is un-fingerprintable is very hard to solve unless you block Flash which effectively "breaks the internet". It's no more/less fingeprint-able by the way than any other browser -- and in general you're much safer since we block the known companies that do use fingerprinting. If you're Edward Snowden and you're being targeted, well that's a different story!