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You actually lose quite a lot in term of ease of use and performance when trying to be fully anonymous :(

History, Password saving, Auto-suggest, Web Cache, Automatic Browser Updates, Spell check, DNS pre-fetching & cache.

Privacy isn't "free", you're right. Epic supports password saving -- since it's the user's choice, we determined that we could leave it in. Many things can be done in a private way, so for example we have implemented local address bar auto-fill, so you can type "f" and have facebook.com appear but it's not based on your history nor any query to a web server. We will be building in more such services to make using Epic both private and convenient!! Epic does by the way auto-update for Windows though we hope to make it optional in the future for the extremely privacy conscious. For the Mac, it will give you a pop-up when there's an update so it's just about as simple as auto-updating.

Can't spell check be a completely local feature without hitting any outside servers? I didn't understand why that was disabled.

Yes you're right spell check surely can be! We'll work on it. Chromium is difficult to work with as something like spell check will be built to be supported as a web service so migrating it to a local service takes a bit of time. Great idea though and something we will work on!

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