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.

Chrome to allow shut down of Profiles to Save Memory

Recently we reported Chrome is getting a new Profile Picker interface and Ephemeral profiles. Google is now looking to make sure resources are freed up when a profile’s last window is closed. Generally, this happens when Chrome is closed completely. If you use multiple profiles, when you use one profile, the non-active profile still consumes […]

Windows 10 KB4579311 (build 19041.572) available for download [Changelog & offline installer]

After offering Preview Update KB4577063 earlier this month, Microsoft today, released October Patch Tuesday Updates for Windows 10 2004 and earlier versions, and are available for manual download and via Windows Update. Cumulative Update KB4579311 comes with a bunch of improvements and security fixes. Windows 10 KB4579311 The security update Updates to improve security when …

Firefox 81.0.2 includes fix to Twitter’s ‘Network Protocol Violation’ Error [Arriving Today]

After updating to Firefox 81, some users reported, they can’t access the twitter website and receiving a “network protocol violation that cannot repair” error The only way to make Twitter work on Firefox was to visit about servicewokers page and unregister Twitter SW. Here, Firefox’s “Strict Tracking Protection” has broken Twitter. Mozilla has identified the …

Edge not remembering Website Logins? Microsoft’s Workaround is here

Users who upgraded to “Edge 86 stable” are reporting, new Edge is not remembering website logins. Seems the issue is triggering when the user configures Edge to clear “Hosted App data” on closing. Microsoft has acknowledged this and is currently offering a temporary workaround that keeps you signed in to websites when you close and […]

New Microsoft Edge offers setting to disable ‘Reveal password’ button

New Microsoft Edge got the ability to autofill passwords on websites and has Password Generator built-in to suggest strong passwords when you sign up for new online accounts. Edge also alerts when it finds your passwords are breached, in addition to these, relating to Passwords, Microsoft now offering a new setting in Edge Canary to …