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.

Chrome for Android is getting a new Security feature

After the desktop, Google is adding the ‘Safety check’ tool to Chrome on Android. Recently, Google introduced redesigned security and privacy settings for Chrome on the desktop, along with them, Chrome received a built-in tool to check browser security and update status. Chrome on Android now receiving the Safety check feature in Canary. The tool …

This Extension brings ‘Set Tabs Aside’ feature to Chrome & Edge browsers

New Microsoft Edge does not contain ‘Set aside tabs’ feature from Microsoft Edge legacy, now you can add it to the new Edge and Chrome browsers by installing an extension available on Chrome and Edge add-on Stores. The previous version of the Edge browser allows you to set all open tabs aside by clicking on …

Chrome Experiment warns some extensions can slow down & see browsing activity

This may be a coincidence or intentional after row over Google removing some malicious Chrome extensions, there is now an ‘Extensions Checkup’ experiment in Chrome stable, which when enabled, warns users that some extensions can affect users’ privacy and Chrome performance. Despite Google policing extensions on Chrome Web Store, somehow, malicious extensions skip its radar …

Microsoft Edge 85: Enable ‘Block’ option in Autoplay Settings

Microsoft is bringing back the option to block Media Autoplay on websites in the new Microsoft Edge browser via a flag in the Canary version. Classic Microsoft Edge aka Edge Legacy offers a global and per-site setting to block automatic playback of videos on websites. New Microsoft Edge currently offers ‘Allow’ and ‘Limit’ options in …

Firefox Experimental features can be enabled from Settings in Nightly

Similar to about: flags in Chrome, Mozilla may soon allow users to try out Firefox new features it is working on by visiting the ‘Firefox Experiments’ section in the about: preferences page. Rather than visiting about config and enabling a feature that is currently under development, Mozilla through ‘Feature Gates’ system to expose some features …

Microsoft releases LinkedIn Extension for Edge

Microsoft has released LinkedIn Extension for new Microsoft Edge to Edge Add-ons Store and is now available for download. Microsoft’s LinkedIn was in the news recently, when Microsoft started notifying LinkedIn users on its website that the networking platform won’t be supported on Internet Explorer 11 from July 01, 2020, onwards. While LinkedIn extension for …

Microsoft Editor recommends disabling other Grammar extensions to avoid conflicts

If you’re using Microsoft Editor along with any other Grammar extension such as Grammarly, you’ll receive a notification from the former to disable other extensions for Microsoft Editor to work best. WIth popular Grammarly and other Grammar and spell checking related web services and browser extensions available, recently Microsoft released Microsoft Editor Extension for Chrome …

Microsoft Investigates Storage Spaces issue in Windows 10 2004

Microsoft today acknowledged that after updating to Windows 10 May 2020 Update users may not able to access certain Storage Spaces configurations. The company without offering any workaround suggested affected users to mark storage spaces as read-only to prevent any data issues. The Software giant noted it is investigating the issue and provides an update …