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.

Google to show Cloud Print Deprecation Warning on chrome://devices page

Back in November 2019, Google has announced it will deprecate Cloud Print service in December 2020 and suggested users find an alternative print solution and migrate their print services. While deprecation is still a few months away, Google today made a commit to replace the “chrome://devices” page in Chrome with Cloud Print deprecation message, the […]

Chrome for Android to offer a new option to fill passwords on websites

Chrome for Android remembers the username and password you enter into an email account or other websites and auto-fills the credentials next time when you visit. Chrome is already rolling out touch-to-fill for passwords feature and another feature related to password autofill on Android is being worked out by Google and the feature will allow …

Microsoft: no uninstall option for Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 installed via Windows Update

Microsoft took to Edge support website to confirm that there will be no uninstall option for new Microsoft Edge installed via Windows System update and the legacy version of Edge won’t be available to users once they migrate to the new Edge Microsoft made the new Microsoft Edge based on Chromium available for manual download …

Microsoft’s new Edge Extension adds alt-text to Caption-less Images on Websites

Microsoft has released the ‘Caption Crawler’ extension to Edge Add-ons Store for Microsoft Edge and is available for download. This extension “adds captions to images that don’t have any” to help users with disabilities who rely on Screen Readers to get image descriptions. Screen Readers skip the images that don’t have alt-text included, to address …

Microsoft Edge’s ‘vertical tabs’ is already available to some Users

Four months back, in a blog post, Microsoft showed off Edge’s new Vertical tabs feature, confirming it will be available to the users in the months to come. The feature is already available to some users via Controlled Feature Rollouts. At the end of March, the Edge team said Collections, Password Monitor, Smart Copy, Vertical …

Chrome 85 to use Program Files as Installation directory on Windows

Last month, we’ve reported Google has decided to install 64-bit Chrome to Program Files folder on Windows. Today, we noticed the change already came into effect and applies to Chrome 85 beta and Chrome 86 dev installations as Chrome executable of these versions now running from Program Files path. Some 64-bit app installers still ignore …

CCleaner is wiping Firefox Extensions Settings, how to fix

Recently Microsoft Defender has started flagging CCleaner as Potentially Unwanted Application, CCleaner users using Firefox are now facing a new issue. If you run CCleaner, behind the scenes, it is now clearing Firefox extensions Settings data, this is due to the new Storage sync Mozilla implemented in Firefox 79 which CCleaner simply doesn’t aware of …