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.

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 …

Mozilla turns on FastBlock in Firefox Nightly to block slow-loading trackers

Mozilla is currently working to improve tracking protection feature, on that part, the Firefox team has replaced Tracking Protection with Content Blocking in Firefox 63. New Content Blocking feature that blocks third-party content, when turned on in normal mode can break or prevent sites from loading. Considering this, Mozilla is now trying to test Content […]

Latest Avast blocks Internet Access and turns off Malwarebytes Web Protection

Latest Avast 18.6.2349 is having all issues such as it blocks access to the internet and its plugin also reported Twitter as harm site and Avast’s Real Site Protection module is deactivating Malwarebytes Web Protection. Luckily, these issues have workarounds and the company is working with Malwarebytes on a fix for the conflicting issue. Avast […]

CCleaner 5.46: Smart Cleaning, Data Factsheet, disable Usage data collection option

After CCleaner 5.45 version that has not allowed users to disable active monitoring that sent usage data to Avast, Piriform has released CCleaner 5.46 and is available with the ability to turn off active monitoring, which has now been renamed to Smart Cleaning and it no longer contains data reporting feature. As promised by Avast, […]

Opera 57 installer new UI

Opera 57: Opera Installer gets a new UI

Opera 57 installer new UI

Opera 57 has entered the developer stream and is available to download for testing. The version 57.0.3058.0 based on Chromium 70 is an initial developer release, that improves Settings page styling and brings a new UI for the installer. The installer wizard informs about the – unique features in Opera – built-in ad blocker, Free …