Venkat Eswarlu
Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

Reader View in Microsoft Edge Canary gets Text Preferences to change font size and Page theme

Today we’ve covered Chrome Canary added an icon in the address bar to toggle Reader Mode on or off, it may be coincidence that Microsoft also landed a change related to Reader View in Chromium-based Edge in Canary build, they’ve added “Text Preferences” to change font size and page background theme, Chrome reader mode doesn’t […]

Microsoft Edge Chromium to limit Media Autoplay on websites

Microsoft Edge Chromium lacks the ability to control videos autoplay, legacy Edge already provides a setting for that. Latest Microsoft Edge Canary received a new flag that will algorithmically limit media autoplay on websites except that of popular ones such as YouTube, when enabled. Autoplaying of videos on news sites is a regular phenomenon, this […]

Mozilla tests Ad-Free Internet Service for Firefox that costs $5 per Month

Rather than each website charging users with subscription fees to view articles, Mozilla now testing “Ad-free internet” service in Firefox browser powered by Scroll, which they announced a while back. With this new paid service, Firefox lets you read your favorite websites on any device by paying $4.99 per month. As Firefox blocks tracking ads …

Chrome starts blocking ads on abusive sites in Canary, offers an option in notification to allow ads

Sites that don’t follow Better Ads Standards now paying price, apparently Google has started blocking ads on abusive sites they know so far in Chrome Canary and showing “ads blocked” notification in the address bar when users visit such sites and offer an option within the notification to allow ads on that site. We’ve seen …