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The latest technology news from Techdows: browser releases, Windows updates, new software versions, and notable changes across the tools you use every day. We focus on practical, verified updates that genuinely affect how you use your PC, without the hype.

News

Microsoft’s GitHub tried to Prevent users running Pirated Windows from Signing with Security Keys

March 21, 2019 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Microsoft’s GitHub intended to show browser doesn’t support security keys message to users running Pirated Windows but it appeared for all, including Firefox users

Posted in: News
Firefox
Firefox 66 final whats new

Firefox 66 to release with Search and Performance improvements

March 19, 2019 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Firefox 66 final whats new

Firefox 66 scheduled to release today, March 19, 2019 with block autoplay, scroll anchoring, Windows Hello support on Windows 10, Mac OS touchbar support,

Posted in: Firefox, News
Google Chrome

Chrome lets you block Sites that access your device’s motion or light Sensors

March 18, 2019 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Chrome now allows websites to access devices motion and light sensors & offers switch in Settings block to the access to sensors for all sites or per site wise.

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome

Chrome to allow Screen Reader users to get image descriptions from Google

March 15, 2019 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Google Chrome soon to allow Screen reader users to ask and get image descriptions from Google for images via an option in the context menu

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Firefox
Firefox 66 Content process 8

Mozilla Firefox 66 to use 8 Content Processes by default

March 14, 2019 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Firefox 66 Content process 8

Mozilla officially announced they’re going to make the number of content processes run by Firefox 66 that is going to release on March 19, 2019 to 8.

Posted in: Firefox, News
How to
Microsoft Edge insider addons page

Microsoft Edge Insider addons site goes live, now available

March 14, 2019 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Microsoft Edge insider addons page

Addons site for Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge insider build goes live and now can be accessed in any browser.

Posted in: How to, Microsoft Edge, News
Google Chrome

Microsoft to bring native Caret browsing and high contrast mode to Chrome browser

March 12, 2019 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Microsoft wants to bring Edge browser’s caret browsing and high contast mode to Chrome browser natively without relying on extensions and they’re working to make that happen.

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Firefox
Firefox Fenix UI

Firefox Fenix Nightly available for download with Sessions [overview and Screenshots]

March 12, 2019 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Firefox Fenix UI

Firefox Fenix for Android is still in development & its nightly/alpha version is now available for download, check screenshots, UI and APK download link in article

Posted in: Firefox, News
News

Windows 10 1903 will remove Problematic Updates to recover system from Startup failure

March 12, 2019 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If Windows 10 is not starting properly, Windows will remove recently installed updates to see it fixes issue & shows notification why they were uninstalled.

Posted in: News
Firefox

Firefox 67 to use dav1d AV1 video Decoder on Windows

March 11, 2019 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Mozilla has enabled dav1d, AV1 decoder by default on Windows and Mac in Firefox 67 for AV1 videos decoding and is scheduled to release on May 14, 2019.

Posted in: Firefox, News
News

Microsoft releases African Safari, Smiling Creatures and Pi day themes for Windows 10

March 10, 2019 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Microsoft has released An African Safari, Smiling Creatures and Pi day themes for Windows 10 and are available on Microsoft Store for download.

Posted in: News
Firefox
Changes how extensions work private browsing message

Mozilla Firefox 67 won’t allow extensions to run in Private Windows by default

March 7, 2019 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Changes how extensions work private browsing message

Starting Firefox 67, user permission is required for extensions to run in Private windows, you can do that when you install a new extension or by visiting extension’s settings in Add-ons Manager.

Posted in: Firefox, News
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