Other Chromium browsers suffer from the same behind-the-times syndrome: Opera's current release, for instance, uses Chromium 65, which Chrome applied in the Stable version that debuted in March. 6, 2017 Epic is thus more than six months behind Chrome. Google used Chromium 63 to produce Chrome 63, which shifted to the production-quality Stable channel on Dec.
(The Windows edition said it was based on even-older Chromium 62.) Meanwhile, Chrome for the Mac reported that Chromium 67 was its foundation. When Computerworld recently downloaded and installed the latest Epic for macOS, the browser's user agent asserted that it used Chromium 63.
Is Epic as up to date as Chrome?īecause Epic's developers need to have the final code of a Chromium version before they can begin to layer the Epic-specific components atop the open-source framework, they're usually behind Google. (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.
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