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.

Twitter desktop site Shows Highlights in Notifications

The Twitter highlights feature, available on Android and iOS apps, now shows up in Notifications on the Web version of the social site. For the uninitiated, Highlights feature shows “most interesting content from Twitter, tailored just for you”. The feature neither announced nor available on Twitter.com for the public, appeared for my twitter handle in …

Avira discontinues Avira Scout browser

Avira Scout browser from Avira has come and gone, no one noticed. It’s not surprising for antivirus vendors to release browsers, examples are: current Avast Secure browser (former Avast SafeZone browser) and already discontinued Avira Scout. For the uninitiated, Avira Scout has been publicly launched in March 2017 by Avira and at that time, it […]

Firefox 64: Remove An Extension by right clicking on its icon on toolbar

Firefox now allows removing an extension by selecting an option in the extension icon right click menu on the toolbar. Till now Google Chrome browser offers this convenience, Firefox now has joined with Chrome by adding that option to Nightly version. To remove an installed extension, Google Chrome offers ‘Remove from Chrome’ Context menu option […]

Vivaldi 2.0 snapshot available for download

Vivaldi team has released Vivaldi 2.0 snapshot by bumping the snapshot version number from 1.16.1279.3 to 2.0.1295.3, why they did that? We don’t know, what we know from their blog post they’ve fixed a lot of issues and regressions from the last snapshot. You can update to the latest snapshot by checking for updates from …