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.

Here’s how to Update Extensions in Chrome and Microsoft Edge

New Microsoft Edge based on Chromium supports Chrome extensions. You can install extensions in Edge from Chrome Web Store or Edge Add-ons Store. As of now, the latter contains a limited number of extensions. Contrary to Edge Add-ons Store, Chrome Web Store contains thousands of extensions. You can install themes and extensions in the Chrome …

How to Enable and use ‘Chrome Actions’ in Chrome 87 right now

Recently Google has released Chrome 87 with new features and performance and memory improvements. “Chrome Actions” is one such new feature that lets you do things right from the address bar without the need to visit the Privacy and Security Settings. Like Chrome 83, Google has decided to progressively roll out the feature including Tab …

Microsoft Edge for Android doesn’t download anything when there is no SD card, but there is a fix

The latest Edge Update for Android has fixed an annoying bug where it can’t download files when Phones doesn’t have an SD Card by showing ” SD Card not found”, the Edge couldn’t save the files to Internal storage like other web browsers. Edge for Android-based on Chromium isn’t getting new features at the pace …

Chrome to Show web pages Performance metrics w/o Web Vitals Extension

Google has released Web Vitals Chrome extension that shows Web Performance metrics for a page in Heads Up Display such as largest contentful paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift. In addition to these, Chrome may natively display Smoothness metric as well on Android and other platforms. As of now, to know how a …

Microsoft removes Scummy Extension ‘UBlock Adblock Plus’ from Edge Add-ons Store

A few days back, Microsoft has removed some extensions from the Edge Add-ons store that hijacked the Search results. Yet another extension was gone. This time, it’s an adblocker named “UBlock Adblock Plus”. According to the UBlock Origin developer, the extension is based on an old version of UBO and it starts injecting iframe into …

Tip: Hide ‘Other Bookmarks’ Folder in Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar

Recently we reported, for the first time, Firefox allows hiding Bookmarks Toolbar with Ctrl+Shift+B Shortcut on Windows. To make it easier to access bookmarks saved to “Other Bookmarks folder”, starting Firefox 84 onwards, the Bookmarks Toolbar will display the Other Bookmarks folder. If you move bookmarks to another folder or Bookmarks Menu, the folder will …

Microsoft Pulls down Fake Extensions from Edge Add-ons Store

Yesterday we covered Google Search results in Edge are getting redirecting to other sites with OKSearch as Intermediary for some users. After users confirmed this happening due to particular extensions installed from Edge Add-ons Store. Microsoft has further looked into those and removed them. If you’re using these extensions, Edge will disable them on the …