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.

Firefox for Android offers new Extensions on Privacy, Productivity and Ad Blocking in Nightly

Recently, we reported Firefox for Android Nightly received two popular extensions named Video Background Playback Fix and Google Search Fixer, Mozilla has now added a few more recommended add-ons related to the privacy, Password Management, adblocking, image search, and Productivity and are available in the Nightly version. Mozilla has discontinued Fennec and launched new Firefox …

Microsoft Edge New Tab Page getting a major upgrade in a future update

Microsoft brought Windows lock screen Spotlight images to Edge’s new tab page, with Bing daily background, it looks even more beautiful. Here are the new features and improvements loaded for Edge New Tab Page in pre-release channels. Edge New Tab Page gets Custom themes support and more Custom themes support Preload contents for faster loading …

How to disable Firefox’s Media Controls feature

Mozilla recently released Firefox 81 with Credit Card auto-fill, new Alpenglow theme, new UI for PDF Viewer, PDF form filling, and other features and improvements. The update has also brought support for hardware media keys which allows controlling audio and video with the keyboard. If you don’t like the Media Control feature that displays dated …

Windows 10 20H2 KB4577063 fixes WSL’s “Element not found” Error

Windows 10 September Cumulative Update KB4571756 released as part of Patch Tuesday has broken WSL 2 and produced an “Element not found” error. Till now uninstalling the update is the only remedy to make WSL work again, today, Microsoft released build 19042.541 (KB4577063) to beta and release Preview channels running Windows 10 October 2020 Update …

Firefox 81 is out with Credit Card autofill and new Alpenglow theme

In addition to Windows, Mac, Linux, Mozilla has released Firefox v81 for Android also and the latter is now available on the Play Store for download. Both desktop and Android versions come with new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Check out what’s new in this release below. Firefox 81 Desktop: Media Control: After Chrome, Firefox …

Firefox for Android to block Redirect Trackers

After making Enhanced Tracking Protection v2.0 available in Firefox for Desktop, Mozilla is now bringing it to Android (Fenix). Currently, ETP 2.0 is available in Firefox for Android Nightly and is part of “Strict Tracking Protection”. With Tracking Protection in place and Web browsers launching new tools to protect users’ privacy such as by blocking …

Microsoft fixes Windows 10 Photos App Crashes w/ new Update

Back in July, we reported Photos App on Windows 10 is crashing like hell whenever you try to open an image. The affected app version caused the issue was 2020.20070.1002.0. Today, on September 20, the Photos app received a much-needed update that jumps version number to 2020.20090.1002.0 and it may have come with a crash …