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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.

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Beware! Latest Avast Free Antivirus Installs Skype If you don’t pay Attention

April 22, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Security vendor Avast has teamed up with Microsoft, latest Avast antivirus 2015 R2SP2 automatically installs Skype if you don’t have it installed on your … [Read more…]

Google Chrome

Chrome 42: How to get old Bookmarking Interface and Manager back?

April 22, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Don’t like the new bookmarking interface introduced by Google with Chrome 42 version? You can change that to the old one (classic) easily through … [Read more…]

Firefox

How to disable tab-based preferences in Firefox 38?

April 21, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

This article tells how to get Firefox preferences in a pop-up window from Tab one. If you’re used to seeing Firefox options or settings … [Read more…]

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Dropbox tests New Installer for Windows with Helper for Updates Included

April 10, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Dropbox has started testing a new Windows Installer (offline version is only available at the moment) that has helper for updates included. Means, if … [Read more…]

Spartan

Make Spartan as default browser in Windows 10

April 10, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

With the build 10049, Microsoft has introduced ‘Project Spartan’ browser for Windows Insiders in Windows 10, it is still in development and buggy, though … [Read more…]

Firefox

How to uninstall Marketplace Apps from Firefox Desktop?

April 8, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

With Firefox 35, Mozilla has introduced Marketplace beta, by accessing it from the tools menu or by visiting this link you can able to … [Read more…]

How to

How to disable Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit’s Notifications?

April 6, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit is available in Free and premium versions, where Free version shields browsers (including add-ons also) such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox , … [Read more…]

tips and tricks

Uninstall Language Packs in Windows 10 build 10049 to reclaim 2.5 GB Disk Space

April 4, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Have you noticed that? Windows 10 build 10049 installation took a longer time than the previous builds, something not right with this build, it … [Read more…]

Firefox

How to uninstall or remove Adobe Primetime Decryption Module Plugin from Firefox 38?

April 3, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Till now, to view DRM-Controlled content in the Firefox browser, you need to have Microsoft Silverlight or Adobe Flash Plugin installed, which no longer … [Read more…]

Firefox

Noise Control Add-on Shows Audio Indicators for HTML5 Video Playing Tabs in Firefox

April 1, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Chrome natively shows audio indicators for music playing tabs in its browser, Firefox users miss this feature, fortunately, Noise Control add-on now shows audio … [Read more…]

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