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 Preview Beta for Android gets Voice Search and more

Soon to be available Firefox Preview 5.2 beta has got Voice Search support and shows Reader mode icon in the address bar. The beta also includes accessibility improvements and bug fixes. Firefox Nightly and Beta for Android already got Fenix, Firefox for Android stable will soon be replaced with Fenix. Recently, Mozilla has started experimenting …

New Microsoft Edge to open PDFs in App Mode in Firefox

Starting Firefox 79, If you select or set new Microsoft Edge to open PDFs in Firefox, then the PDFs will open in the Edge browser in a ‘toolbar-less window’ or ‘app mode’. Mozilla constantly updates and improves Firefox built-in PDF Viewer, PDF.js. Recently the company made the following improvements and changes to Firefox PDF Viewer. …

Chrome now lets you Scan for Potentially Unwanted Programs with Safety check Tool

Google is adding the ‘Chrome Cleanup’ tool that is already available in Chrome Settings to ‘Safety check’ for the users to scan and remove ‘unwanted software’ on their computers. Google first introduced the Software Removal tool for Chrome browser (later renamed it to Chrome Cleanup) as a standalone program for users to download, scan, and …

Firefox 78: Mozilla moves “Close other Tabs” & “Close tabs to Right” to a submenu again, how to revert?

Mozilla has made unnecessary changes to the Firefox Tab Context menu yet again for one more time. The company has moved “Close Tabs to the Right” and “Close Other Tabs” options to a “Close Multiple Tabs” submenu in Firefox 78. This article discusses the change and includes a workaround that reverts that change to a …