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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.

Tab Groups add-on for Firefox Now Available to cover the Loss of Panorama

November 23, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Tab groups add-on which has been built to replace Panorama works in Firefox 45 or later versions. Mozill…

Make On-Screen touch Keyboard to appear in Firefox 43 in Windows 10

November 22, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Force virtual keyboard to automatically pop up for Firefox browser, even on non-touch Windows 10 devices…

You can now drag and drop files into Google Drive

November 21, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Drag files from desktop onto Google drive website to upload. Google Drive already allows you to upload f…

Telemetry in Firefox may install and run experiments from time to time

November 21, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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For non-release Firefox versions such as Nightly, Developer Edition (Aurora) and Beta, Mozilla turns on …

7-Zip 15.12 stable released with RAR5 Support

November 20, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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7-Zip 15 comes out of beta, release version 15.12 is now available with new features and RAR5 archive ex…

Vivaldi Snapshot based on Chromium 47 adds Trash folder for bookmarks and notes, allows Panel Hiding

November 20, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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After releasing beta version, Vivaldi has released two snapshots, the new Vivaldi 1.0.330.3 snapshot bas…

Disable ‘Get Firefox on your iOS and Android devices’ ad or Notification

November 19, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Mozilla’s Firefox for iOS promotion gone horribly wrong and annoyed desktop Firefox users. Today, to a s…

Firefox 45: Restore Default Search Engines button now also resets the selected Search engine to default

November 19, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Mozilla fixes the default Search Engine Restore Issue in Firefox 45. The latest Firefox 42 and earlier v…

Advanced SystemCare 9 Free Adds Windows 10 Reinforce Feature

November 18, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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IObit has released Advanced SystemCare 9 final and is available to download with full support for Window…

Avira 2016 adds PUA Shield to Browser Safety

November 18, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Avira Free Antivirus 2016 released with PUA shield. Germany-based security company Avira has released Av…

Opera 35 dev lets you mute individual tabs or all tabs in the browser

November 18, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Opera 35 adds a Mute button for a tab or whole browser. Chromium based Opera already displays Audio Indi…

Windows 10 November Update adds ‘Scan with Windows Defender’ Context Menu Option

November 17, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Recent Windows 10 November Update (Threshold 2) has added ‘Scan With Windows Defender’ option to right c…