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.

Edge 86 is out w/ Password breach alerts, NTP Custom Image Support, and more [Changelog]

Microsoft Edge 86 has been released for Windows and Mac and is available for download with plenty of new features, improvements, and bug fixes. The release strengthens password protection, improves download, New Tab Page, and PDF Viewing experience by bringing Edge Legacy’s download prompt, custom image support for New Tab Page, and Table of Contents. […]

Opera browser gets Music Player in Sidebar; Supports YouTube Music, Spotify and Apple

Opera Software is doing all sorts of things these days. They launched a browser called Opera GX for gaming. Allow users to quickly access social sites and  Messengers such as Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger from the sidebar. Innovation isn’t ending as far as the Opera desktop team is concerned, to the latest, they’ve integrated …

Windows 10 KB4577063 (build 19041.546) available for download [Changelog & offline installer]

Recently, we reported Microsoft pushed Cumulative update KB4577063 to Windows insiders in Beta and release Preview channels to fix WSL2’s Element not found issue caused by September 2020 Cumulative Update. Today, on October 1, Microsoft is offering the Windows build 19041.546 as an optional update to Windows 10 v 2004 via Windows Update. Windows 10 …

Avast Free Antivirus 20.8 comes w/ a Slew of Bug fixes, improvements

In the month of October, Avast Software has released Avast 20.8.2429 and is available for download with some improvements. For instance, Web Shield updated to support for scanning threats in QUIC protocol. Similarly, the way the Cybercapture process sends detected unknown files to Threatlabs updated to make it a whole lot easier.  This release includes …

Firefox 83: ‘Warp’ Speed Improvements, Hide bookmarks Toolbar shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+B), and more

Firefox Javascript JITs engine, codenamed (Warp) received a major update and is enabled by default in Firefox Nightly to bring a speed boost to the browser. Version 83 also brings WebRender to Intel Gen12 GPUs. What is Warp? How it improves Firefox’s performance or memory Warp or WarpBuilder is Mozilla’s project to improve JavaScript performance …

Microsoft Launcher for Android to kill Timeline and Family Parental Control features

The latest Microsoft Launcher for Android beta v6.2.200904.91704 is warning users to prepare for the retirement of the Timeline feature. The message shown in the feed assures Timeline feature will still be available on Windows, Edge, and other office apps. What you should know: Microsoft soon will retire Timeline from Microsoft Launcher for Android. The …

Microsoft Edge’s Web Capture lets you Annotate & take Full page Screenshots

Today, Microsoft introduced a screenshot tool in Edge. The Web Capture available only to a subset of users is now available to everyone in the Canary and dev channels. The company aims to fill the lack of Edge Legacy’s “web notes” with basic screen capture function in new Edge based on Chromium with the ability …