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.

UBlock Origin v1.25 introduces First-Party Tracker blocking Exclusively for Firefox [Not available in Chrome]

Popular AdBlocking extension, UBlock Origin has received a new update (v1.25) to protect Firefox users against CNAME Cloaking or First-Party tracking or DNS delegation or DNA aliasing. The Extension brings the feature to Firefox by utilizing Mozilla’ WebExtensions DNS API, since there is no such comparable API available for Google Chrome, hence Chromium browsers may …

Microsoft Edge v82 enables Chrome’s Similar or Lookalike URL Suggestions

Google Chrome has Lookalike URLs warning protection in place to caution and make users navigate away when they visit sites that contain URLs similar to popular sites. The suggestion says is this your intention to visit that particular site such as Google.com and warns “The site you just tried to visit looks fake. Attackers sometimes …

This Tool creates URLs to find Specified content in Chrome [Scroll to Text Fragment]

A few months back we’ve reported Google will introduce Scroll to Text Fragment feature with a Chrome release, the related Chrome Platform Status page confirms the feature is enabled by default in Chrome 80 on desktop and Andriod, which is not half true. The Text Fragments feature will be available to some via finch experiment […]