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.

Opera 74 adds Native Chrome Web Store extensions installation support

Opera has an add-ons store that contains very few extensions. Opera based on Chromium supports Chrome Extensions, but till now, to install extensions from Chrome Web Store in Opera, you must first install Opera addon named “Install Chrome extensions”. After that, you can install any Chrome extension you like. This is no longer required going …

Microsoft Edge lets you disable its tabs in Windows 10’s Alt+Tab Experience

Starting Windows 10 20H2, Alt+Tab shows more tabs from Microsoft Edge browser The number of Edge tabs that appear can be controlled in Windows 10 multitasking Settings. Microsoft has now given control to Edge users also to manage this thing. The feature is available in Edge Canary 89.0.736.0 behind a flag. On Windows 10 20H2, …

Edge for Android gets Open Tabs and History Sync Support

Microsoft Edge for Android already supports syncing to Edge legacy and new Edge, and syncs favorites, form fill, collections, and passwords from other devices where Edge installed and Sync turned on. Recently, Microsoft added Open tabs and History syncing support to Edge Android App 45.11.24.5118 in Beta. Microsoft Edge for Android-based on outdated Chromium 77 …

Fix Chrome & Edge’s “An error occurred while checking for updates. Updater is currently running “

You may occasionally see an error with the Chromium browser that informs updater is currently running, refresh in a minute to complete the update. If you run pre-release versions of Chrome and Edge that are in development such as Canary, you tend to see this error more often, here is how you can fix that …