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.

Mozilla to use BITS and a Background Update Agent to update Firefox on Windows

Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) responsible for downloading Windows Updates is going to download Firefox updates in the background even when the browser is not running or closed in upcoming Firefox release. Mozilla to use BITS for Firefox 68 to update browser whereas from version 70 onwards they are going to use BITS via …

Malwarebytes disables Windows Defender in Windows 10 version 1903

Though Malwarebytes is a replacement to Antivirus, it does play nice with antivirus installed on Windows and works along with it without any issues. When you install Malwarebytes, it doesn’t register itself as antivirus, now on Windows 10 version 1903, this is not the case, both Malwarebytes Premium and Windows Defender are getting turned off. […]

Google fixes Chrome address bar’s recent searches Autocomplete Bug

We’ve covered Chrome Omnibox displayed recent searches first instead of most visited sites, the issue is still present in Chrome 75 and 76 versions and can be resolved by disabling Google Drive document suggestions in Omnibox. Do note this is a workaround, today, Chromium team member apologized for this and said the issue would be …

Microsoft Edge Chromium adds Jump List Support for PWAs on Windows 10

Latest Microsoft Edge Canary 77.0.196.0 build added Jumplist support for PWAs to show most recently visited pages in the web app on Windows taskbar icon right-click menu under “Recently Visited” Category. Microsoft Edge Chromium and Chrome browsers support Progressive Web Apps and you can install them from the address bar with a single click. In …