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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.

Chrome 57: How to Disable/Enable Chrome PDF Viewer?

February 28, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Since the Plugins page has been removed in upcoming Chrome 57, you may find it difficult to manage PPAPI…

How to disable Avast Identity Protection Service?

February 27, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Avast software included AVG’s behavior analysis aka behavior shield into its 2017 products, which scans …

Google to make Hangouts work without plugin in Firefox 52

February 25, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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As announced by Mozilla earlier, starting from Firefox 52, the browser plugin support has been removed, …

Opera 43 released with Instant Page Loading feature

February 7, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Final or stable version of Opera 43 based on Chromium 56 has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux pl…

404 Bookmarks for Firefox removes Expired bookmarks

February 6, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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If you use Firefox browser and bookmarked a lot of pages or sites, some of the bookmarks might have dead…

Chrome 56 gets Print Scaling

February 4, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Finally, Chrome now allows you to scale documents. Scaling pages before printing from within the Print P…

Google Chrome: ‘Profile error occurred Something went wrong..’

February 3, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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When you update Chrome, sometimes, the browser is known to show profile error dialog — like profile can …

Vivaldi adds History Panel to Sidebar

February 3, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Latest Vivaldi snapshot 1.7.735.29 has added History Panel to the sidebar, this makes it quickly access …

Troubleshooting

Dropbox service DbxSvc runs even after uninstall

February 2, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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After using Dropbox on Windows for some period if you’ve uninstalled it, you should know this: it’s serv…

Firefox: How to delete Cookies for a Single Site?

February 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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By visiting the Privacy Settings, you can able to delete all cookies stored by the Firefox browser, how …

Chrome 57: Google removes the Plugins page

January 31, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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The chrome://plugins or about://plugins page which lets you manage plugins installed in Chrome browser h…

Firefox 51.0.1 release to fix Geolocation Issue [update: released]

January 26, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu 5 Comments

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As usual, a dot release has been planned to fix issues found in Firefox 51. Apparently, in version 51, G…