(Other non-Google browsers that depend on Chromium include Opera, Brave and Qihoo 360, one of the most popular Chinese-made browsers.) īecause Epic relies on Chromium, the back-end technologies that power Chrome - such as the Blink rendering engine and the V8 JavaScript engine - also power Epic. Google uses Chromium to provide the source code for its Chrome browser.
What's under Epic's hood?Įpic is built upon Chromium, the open-source project Google and others maintain. Here's what you need to know to better understand this browser with a difference. Vivaldi, for example, boasts that it's a throwback to times when browser austerity had yet to take hold Brave dares to upend the online advertising ecosystem.Īnd some, like Epic, an almost-unknown browser that originated in India, have decided that pushing privacy is how they'll stand out, or try to.Ĭomputerworld took a long look at Epic - on Windows and macOS, the two supported operating systems - to figure out what it is, what it does and what it doesn't do. Once past the Big Four browsers - Chrome and Firefox, Edge and Safari - the battles for user share scraps are typically waged by specialties, with each contestant proclaiming why it's best at this or that forte.