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.

New Microsoft Edge receives Windows 10 Share feature and Favorites button

The features which Microsoft promised to bring to Chromium Edge browser are gradually landing in the Dev and Canary builds, the company recently delivered a fix to Administrator mode detected the issue and now we’ve Windows 10 Share feature and favorites toolbar button available in both Canary and Dev builds. Microsoft has brought the Share …

Chrome 78 Canary adds reveal button to the password field

Recently, we’ve covered Microsoft implemented battery life-extending solution in Chromium browser which is now available behind a flag in Chrome and Edge browsers, yet another contribution from MS, the “Reveal Password button” has been landed in Chrome 78 Canary and now shows you the password you’ve typed in the password field when you click on …

Microsoft releases Otters theme for Windows 10

Recently we’ve covered about Mountain’s Glow theme released by Microsoft, the company today has published “Otters” theme on Microsoft Store and is available to download for Windows 10. With this wallpaper pack, you’ll get “twelve adorable Otter images splish and splash across your desktop”.  Theme page on Store mentions the images should be used for […]

Firefox 70 adds new Certificate Viewer at about:certificate and a Setting to disable Picture in Picture Video Toggle

Mozilla has updated how it displays a site certificate information in Firefox browser by adding a new “certificate viewer” at about:certificate page and the change is enabled by default in Nightly 70. The company also provided a setting to disable Picture-in-Picture Video toggle icon in the Preferences. As of now, if you now view any …

Google updates the Tab Context menu in Chrome, removes “Close other Tabs” and other options

Google has implemented the changes they always wanted to do to the tab context menu from the beginning of browser launch in Chrome, recently, the company has removed “Close other tabs”, “Bookmark all tabs” along with other two entries. The changes have been already landed and live in Chrome Canary. Four years ago, the Chromium …

After Chrome, Chromium Edge can now fix the battery drain issue

The experimental feature which Microsoft readied to improve device battery life during media playback in Chrome browser, now landed in Microsoft Edge Canary and available for testing. Microsoft which claims better battery life with EdgeHTML when compared to rival browsers has implemented a change in Chromium that “prevent(s) streaming media content from being cached to …

Malwarebytes 4 gets major UI changes, Beta available for download

The first public beta for the next major version of “Malwarebytes 4” has been released and available for download. The version ships with a new User interface, online installer and a new detection engine. Malwarebytes version 4 sports a completely redesigned interface with Detection History, Scanner and Real-Time Protection modules on the main window. The …