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.

Avast to Separate CCleaner Active Monitoring and heartbeat, promises control to user over these

Avast/Piriform has finally responded to CCleaner 5.45 active monitoring issue and said they’re working to separate Active Monitoring and heartbeat in CCleaner UI in upcoming weeks and control will be given to users in configuring them individually. What happened? Avast Software has released CCleaner 5.45 by integrating heartbeat (anonymous analytics) feature that sends CCleaner usage …

Mozilla enables Ctrl+Tab Previews in Firefox by default for new profiles

Starting Firefox 63, if you’ve a clean or new profile, pressing Ctrl+Tab displays preview of all open tabs by default. Like Windows, which shows thumbnail previews of open applications when you press Alt+Tab, Mozilla has introduced a preference browser.ctrlTab.previews in about:config in Firefox 4, which when enabled shows thumbnail preview of tabs at center of browser …