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 Cumulative Update KB4517389 is causing BSOD to Some

Problems continue with the latest Windows 10 Cumulative Update published by Microsoft as part of Patch Tuesday. Till now Microsoft acknowledged the KB4517389 update has caused issues to Start Menu and Edge browser, another issue in the form of BSOD is affecting some now. According to the affected reported on Microsoft Answers and other support …

Piriform Auto Updates CCleaner v5.62 and Previous versions to v5.63

If you’re using CCleaner 5.62 on Windows, your CCleaner will be automatically updated to the latest v5.63 which was released a few hours back by Piriform, this could be because it contains a security update. The version changelog mentions “this release contains an important security update and some minor bug fixes and UI updates”. “Users […]

Firefox 71 release to get new About:config Page

New about:config page built-on web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) is finally coming to Firefox 71 release channel and will replace the XUL based version of the Configuration Editor. About:config, one of the internal pages of Firefox, used by users to troubleshoot and tweak Firefox performance by modifying hidden preferences, to get a complete makeover. […]

Chrome and Chromium Edge can now silence the Website Notification Prompts

Do you hate website notifications? Who doesn’t? Though you can block all of them from Settings in Chrome browser, by doing so, you’ll miss notifications from your favorite sites. An experimental feature “Quieter notification permission prompts” is now available in Chrome and Chromium Edge browsers (Canary channel), which when enabled, without showing the usual dialog, …

Microsoft Acknowledges the Windows 10 Start Menu Critical Error, Promises to release Fix in Late October

We’ve covered Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB4524147 which aims to fix Print issues, hasn’t resolved them but broke the Start Menu by showing Critical Error for some, while the Patch Tuesday Update KB4517389 released on October 8, 2019, has resolved the printer issues but not that of Start Menu for the previously affected. Microsoft employee […]

Chrome Web Store rejects UBlock Origin dev version by citing as Multi-Purpose extension, here is what this means

The popular ad-blocking extension, UBlock Origin is still available on Chrome Web Store, but the upcoming version may not be available or extension won’t be updated in future as RC1 build of same has been rejected by Chrome Web Store team by citing it as “bundling unrelated functionality” which users need to accept, they told […]

Microsoft readies Windows 10 November 2019 Update for release

Microsoft has today announced on Windows Experience blog that they’re readying “Windows 10 November 2019 Update”(version 1909) for release and says 18364.418 is the final build that includes all new features of 19H2 as well as latest fixes from KB4517381 update. As of now, the build 18364.418 is already available to Release Preview ring users, […]

October Patch Tuesday Update for Windows 10 resolves the Print Crashes in Chrome and Firefox browsers

Both Google and Mozilla noticed a spike in print crashes in Chrome and Firefox browsers with the recent Windows 10 Update, the teams relieved after the Patch Tuesday update resolved the issue. Microsoft recently acknowledged the updates they published for various versions of Windows 10 caused “intermittent issues when printing”. This affected all the applications […]