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.

Vivaldi browser’s Private window gets new themes to differentiate it from Normal Window

Vivaldi is one of the best web browser’s out there for desktop and Android. It comes with plenty of customization options and better theme support. Vivaldi latest snapshot update 3.3.2022.6 for Windows addressed an issue where users may not able to distinguish between Normal and private windows. Vivaldi automatically colorizes the browser window with that […]

Microsoft Edge now allows using Digital Pen to highlight text in PDFs

Few hours back we covered about the release of Microsoft Edge 85. This version comes with PDF Highlighter tool and other new features. Yesterday, Microsoft announced it will add digital pen support to Highlighter tool for PDFs in Edge version 86. Microsoft says the feature will be useful to researchers and students that read a …

New Dropbox App for Windows 10 spotted on Microsoft Store

In addition to the current  “Dropbox for S mode” App, Dropbox has released yet another App named “Dropbox” to Microsoft Store and is available for Windows 10 devices running version 20197.0 or higher. Dropbox file sharing service offers desktop client for Windows, Mac and Linux. The company offers Dropbox app for Windows 10 in S …

Microsoft Edge 85 goes Stable with Internet Explorer Mode, PDF Highlighter and more

Microsoft has released Edge 85 two days after the release of Chrome 85 and is available for Mac and Windows to download with  new features, improvements, security updates and bug fixes. New version of Edge allows users to enable Internet Explorer Mode straight from its Settings and send collections to OneNote and offers a new …

Firefox PDF Viewer gets new User Interface and Form Filling Support

Mozilla has updated PDF.js, Firefox built-in PDF Viewer interface to align with Photon design which Mozilla follows for Firefox UI. The PDF Viewer has also received Form filling support for PDFs. You may not believe this: PDF.js, JavaScript based PDF Viewer in Firefox still uses Australis interface and comes with dark design. Mozilla has finally …

Chrome’s new experiment makes huge changes to Omnibox Autocomplete

Google is currently conducting an experiment named “Omnibox Rich Autocompletion” in Chrome with the aim to autocomplete suggestion even if the input is part of the title or not a hostname prefix. Generally, the prefix of the URL will be autocompleted. The combined address bar and search bar in Chrome, known as Omnibox, allows us …