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.

Windows 10 KB4565503 reportedly removing Notepad for Some

After installing the July Patch Tuesday update in Windows 10 2004, some users are reporting that Notepad is missing. Yesterday, Microsoft has released Cumulative Update KB455503 (19041.388) to Windows 10 2004 and is available for download via Windows Update. Microsoft claims the update comes with various bug fixes and improvements. There are reports on Reddit …

Google disables Windows Segment Heap in Chrome 85 due to Performance issues

The supposed memory improvements that Segment Heap brings to Chrome on Windows 10 2004 are at the cost of increased CPU usage, Google found in their tests. The Chromium team has disabled the Segment Heap feature in Chrome 85 for now. Google Chrome uses more memory because of its architecture, everyone, including the Chromium team …

Microsoft is looking into Edge popup ads on Bing issue after user reports

Both Microsoft and Google use their web properties to promote Chrome and new Microsoft Edge. The pop-up ads that users receive on Google services and Micorosft websites are the worst and they’re very annoying. Recently we’ve reported Bing is aggressively promoting Edge by showing advertisement at the bottom on its search results page with a …

Microsoft Edge InPrivate Windows allow enforcing Strict Tracking Prevention

Microsoft has added, “Always use “Strict” tracking prevention when browsing InPrivate” Setting to new Edge InPrivate Windows in the Canary version. The switch is already available in Tracking Prevention Settings. Microsoft Edge offers three Tracking Prevention modes to prevent being tracked online when you visit websites. 1. Basic TP allows most of the trackers but …