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.

Malwarebytes AdwCleaner 7.2.4 comes with Automatic Updater

Latest AdwCleaner 7.2.4 comes with auto-updater included, means when you launch AdwCleaner if next version is available, it informs you to update the application. For the uninitiated, AdwCleaner is a free and portable product from Malwarebytes that detects and removes adware, browser hijackers and PUPs. The tool is light on your system and hard on …

Firefox 64: Autocompletes about: URLs in address bar

Unless you visit about:about page in Firefox browser, you don’t know Firefox has this many internal pages, they are there for different purposes, of them, mostly, you use, about:config, about:support, about:profiles and about:performance to change a preference or to troubleshoot issues or to create a new profile or to see which tabs/pages are consuming more […]

Google: Chrome 70 will offer a Setting to remove web and browser sign-in linking

Google has reacted to Chrome sign in and sync  privacy concerns and said in a blog post they’ll offer a setting in upcoming Chrome 70 that will allow users to disable browser sign in and they’ll update Sync UI to avoid data syncing confusion to Google account and ensure Google authentication cookies gets deleted when …

How to Disable Extension Recommendations in Firefox Nightly

We’ve covered Firefox to show extension recommendations to a set of users as part Contextual Feature Recommendation (CFR) system, it’s now happening to Nightly users, they’re receiving notifications to install extensions when they visit different websites such as Reddit, Facebook, YouTube etc (check the video here). The thing is if you tell Firefox to don’t […]