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I use Windows 7 and will never use 10 or 11 because of Microsoft's full assault on user privacy in its Terms of Use for those OS versions. (Do you trust every MS employee in his cubicle in Redmond with monitoring your PC activity and every password, email and account number right down to the keystrokes? I don't.) I will not use any new Microsoft OS until that policy is changed, which I do not think will happen.
Which means I will likely have to migrate to Linux at some point - and hopefully HiddenReflex will eventually produce a Linux-compatible version of Epic. But until then I've been doing a complete drive-wipe and reinstall of Windows 7 OS from disk every month or so. It's a hassle and a risk but it works.
Anyway, I've been an Epic user for several years but lately it will not install on Windows 7. When I download the installer from the epicbrowser.com website and run it, the install window says "Connecting to the internet," then "Waiting to download Epic," where it will sit for a few seconds. Then it says "Download Epic failed. Retry in X seconds..." It does a countdown to zero, then says the same thing again, this time with a few more seconds added to the countdown, and this process repeats a number of times, until...
Eventually it says "Installation Completed" - but there is no desktop icon or taskbar icon, and nothing shows up in either the Program Files or Program Files (x86) folders. In %localappdata% there is an Epic Privacy Browser file, but it only contains an empty folder named "CrashReports." I never find any other Epic files in localappdata.
I've been able to successfully install and use the "Direct (Offline, won't update)" version - but I don't know how new this version is or how secure it is versus the standard, updating version. The standard version is what I want, and up until recently I was able to install and use it with no problems.
So on the subject of this Offline version: Is the download file that's posted at the site periodically updated alongside the updates of the normal version of Epic? IOW, if I download and install the Offline version, does downloading it again, uninstalling the existing one and installing the newly-downloaded one mean it's a new version? If so I could use that method instead.
A lot of questions I know, but please help. I'm completely stuck here, and I don't want to have to give up the Epic browser.
I keep getting that same old problem where I click the Installer from my Downloads file, and after it launches I get a message saying "Waiting to download Epic," then "Download Epic failed. Retry in x second(s)..." It repeats this twice (doubling the "x seconds" every time,) and then says "Installation completed," but Epic is not present on the computer except for the installer file in Downloads.
Epic has worked on this machine in the recent past, so I know there is a way around this. But I've tried everything and it's stuck
I go to the main Epicbrowser.com page, click download, and when I launch the executable, the little pop-up window cycles through "Initializing Epic Installer," "Connecting to Internet" and "Waiting to download Epic," and then...
"Download Epic failed. Retry in (X) second(s)..."
It counts down, goes back to "Waiting to download Epic," sits there awhile, then goes back to "Download Epic failed" and the countdown. This repeats four or five times, with longer periods for each, until I get a pop-up with a green check mark, saying "Installation completed." Except that Epic is nowhere to be found, anywhere.
When I go looking through files in Windows Explorer, I find an Epic Privacy Browser file in AppData, but all the folder contains is a CrashReports folder that is completely empty. There is no other Epic folder anywhere on the system, no Epic icon on the desktop or on the taskbar or the Start menu. It's just not there.
The last time I did a drive-wipe and OS reinstall (something I do monthly, as a zero-tolerance security measure,) I somehow got it installed and running as normal, though I remember wrestling with this same problem before. But I do not know how I was able to succeed in getting past this weird disappearing act.
[I'm running Windows 7 (the last Microsoft OS I am willing to use, after the announcement that Windows 10 had spyware and keyloggers written right into the OS code, therefore ineradicable. My privacy is non-negotiable.)]
I have had the same problem:
- I click the "Download Epic Now" button on the index page, and click "Run" on the installer;
- When I do so I get the normal "Epic Installer is initializing," "Connecting to the Internet" and "Waiting to download Epic...";
- After it sits awhile it says "Download Epic failed. Retry in [x] second(s)"
- It repeats this a number of times with different time lengths, then says "Installation completed";
- The program is nowhere to be found anywhere on the HDD.
There is an EpicPrivacyBrowser folder in the "Local" sub-folder within AppData, but all that is contained in the EpicPrivacyBrowser folder is another folder labeled "CrashReports," which is empty. Please advise.
Thanks for the info alok, I'd been a little miffed at that myself but figured there must be a good reason for its disappearance.
Kolabys, here's a simple workaround:
Enable your Bookmarks bar in Settings if it isn't already, navigate to the site you want as your home page - then bookmark it and change its name to "Home," and make sure the destination folder is simply "Bookmarks Bar." If you already have a bunch of stuff on your bookmarks bar, just drag & drop "Home" to the left edge and it'll be there as your de facto Home button.
I'm getting really, really tired of typing a URL into the address bar, only to have it go to an Epic Search on that URL rather than just navigating directly to that URL - which latter is what any rational person above the age of five or six would logically expect an address bar to do.
Is there a way to turn Epic Search off completely? I use DuckDuckGo exclusively and have zero intention of changing to anything else.
And when I type a URL into the address bar, I do it because I want the browser to go to that URL, surprisingly enough. If I want to do a search, I'll navigate to a search site of my choice. Can we get that obnoxious obstacle out of the way? Is there a method of doing this that I'm missing somewhere? 'Cause I've looked and found nothing.
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