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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.

Google Chrome

Google Fixes YouTube Videos’ Black Screen Issue in Chrome

May 9, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

YouTube’s black screen issue fixed. Yesterday, most Chrome users encountered black screen during the playback of videos on YouTube, while audio still plays, user … [Read more…]

Firefox

Mozilla integrates Pocket into Firefox Nightly

May 8, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Firefox 40 Nightly gets Save to Pocket button. We’ve covered Firefox 38.0.5 going to release with integration of Pocket (formerly known as Read It … [Read more…]

News

Opera 31 developer Enables Encrypted Media Extensions

May 8, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Opera 31 based on Chromium 44 is now available on developer stream for Windows, Mac and Linux. Opera desktop team has enabled Encrypted Media … [Read more…]

Tips and Tricks

Windows 10: Disable Windows Defender’s Message ‘This App has been turned off and isn’t monitoring…’

May 8, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Recently we’ve covered how to disable Windows Defender’s PC Status potentially unprotected warning, now it’s time to fix another one. When you’ve installed another … [Read more…]

How to

How to disable Snagit update Notifications?

May 6, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If you’ve disabled TechSmith Snagit from auto-updating, (if you don’t know, you can do it by opening Snagit preferences, click on ‘Advanced’ tab, under … [Read more…]

Firefox

Firefox 40: Add-ons Manager shows Warnings for Unsigned Add-ons

May 5, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

To protect Firefox users from malicious add-ons, Mozilla has announced extension signing and they’ve started to sign add-ons in AMO, meanwhile, add-ons manager in … [Read more…]

News

How to enable dark theme for Start Menu and Taskbar in Windows 10 build 10074?

May 5, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

In the build 10061, Microsoft has introduced a new black theme for Stat Menu, taskbar and Notification Area, they’ve disabled this theme for half … [Read more…]

Firefox

Firefox 40 gets Task Manager Feature

May 4, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Chrome browser offers task Manager, when you use Shift+Esc on Windows you can open it and see which process is consuming a lot of … [Read more…]

News

Microsoft releases KB3061161 Update for Windows 10 build 10074 to fix Start Menu, Cortana and other Issues

May 4, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

A new update KB3061161 is now available to Windows Insiders on Windows 10 build 10074 via Windows Update, this –Windows 10 Insider Preview Update … [Read more…]

Firefox