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.

Microsoft Edge Chromium now available to download on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1

Microsoft Edge Insider Preview builds now available for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 devices, Canary version only for now, Microsoft promises to launch more reliable Dev build soon to these Windows editions. Microsoft doesn’t want to limit their Edge browser to Windows 10 only, they want its reach to greater than Internet Explorer …

Chrome and Edge display YouTube Videos info in an Overlay

Since sometime, for now, Chrome and Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browsers are displaying Media Controls Overlay if you use media keys while videos are playing, there is another development taken place, Microsoft worked with Google to bring YouTube album or video info to overlay. This can be spotted in latest Chrome Canary and Edge (dev and …

Piriform launches CCleaner browser, available for download

Piriform quietly introduced CCleaner browser based on Chromium for Windows without any announcement and is available for download right now on their website. CCleaner Browser With the existing CCleaner, Defraggler, Recuva, Speccy, CCleaner for Mac, CCleaner Network products, Piriform added CCleaner Browser to its product list. Piriform owned by Avast software, already offers Avast Secure …

Disable Media Control Overlays on Chrome and Edge browsers in Windows 10

Both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge (Chromium) displays media overlays for YouTube videos when you use media keys on the keyboard, here is how you can disable them with a nifty little app that works on Windows 10. Recently, more users noticing this in Chrome and Chromium Edge browsers when they use multimedia keys on …

AVG reportedly deleting passwords and logins saved in Firefox 67.0.2 [Fix]

After updating from Firefox 67.0.1 to Firefox 67.0.2 some users noticing that their logins and passwords stored in Firefox browser are no longer shown by Password manager or can’t be seen in “saved logins” dialog window. The reports coming from users using AVG on their systems and the Firefox profile folder showing “login.json.corrupted”. Mozilla is …