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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.

Firefox
Firefox 65 about performance Task Manager

Mozilla makes about:performance as complete Task Manager in Firefox 65

November 26, 2018 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Firefox 65 about performance Task Manager

About:performance, with Task Manager item pointing to it in hamburger menu in Firefox 64, to report memory & CPU consumption details per tab in Firefox 65.

Posted in: Firefox, News
Google Chrome
Chrome is getting scrollble tab bar

Chrome is getting scrollable tab bar, Google confirms

November 22, 2018 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome is getting scrollble tab bar

Like in Firefox, soon you can able to scroll through tabs in Chrome, Chrome developer confirmed they’re working on a scrollable tab strip.

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
News

Avast 18.8 released, is the last version for Windows XP

November 18, 2018 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Avast Software has released Avast 18.8 on November 15, 2018, and is the last version to support Windows XP and Vista, the company has announced End of support for the Avast on these Operating Systems recently;

Posted in: News
Firefox

Firefox Nightly adds Wayland Support

November 17, 2018 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Firefox with Wayland support is now available in the Nightly version, not enabled by default yet, user needs to set an environment variable to turn it on.

Posted in: Firefox, News
Firefox
Firefox Monitor notification in Firefox browser

Mozilla launches Firefox Monitor Notifications for Firefox users

November 15, 2018 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Firefox Monitor notification in Firefox browser

Mozilla on November 14, 2018, launched Firefox Monitor in 26 languages and introduced the breach alert service notifications to desktop Firefox users.

Posted in: Firefox, News
News
YouTube full screen video scroll for details option

YouTube in full screen now lets you scroll down video to see description and comments

November 15, 2018 by Venkat Eswarlu 8 Comments
YouTube full screen video scroll for details option

YouTube has added ‘Scroll for details’ option to videos playing on the Web in full screen, click on option or scroll down to check description,comments.

Posted in: News
Firefox
Firefox 65 close multiple tabs warning

Firefox 65 to ask for confirmation to close multiple tabs even if session restore is enabled

November 15, 2018 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Firefox 65 close multiple tabs warning

Firefox 65, to ask for confirmation to close multiple tabs even if the Firefox is set to restore previous session at startup, applies to Windows, Linux, Mac

Posted in: Firefox, News
How to

Notepad++ 7.6 brings new Plugins Admin module to manage plugins

November 14, 2018 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Notepad++ 7.6 released on November 13, 2018, with a new built-in Plugins Admin module and is available for download

Posted in: How to, News
News
Action Center Notification Issues

No, KB4467708 hasn’t fixed the Notifications Issue in Windows 10 1809

November 14, 2018 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Action Center Notification Issues

Cumulative Update KB4467708 released on November 13, 2018, by Microsoft hasn’t resolved the Windows 10 1809 action center and Notifications bugs.

Posted in: News
News
Cortana and Search items on taskbar context menu

Microsoft may Separate Windows Search from Cortana in Windows 10 19H1 build

November 11, 2018 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Cortana and Search items on taskbar context menu

According to a report, Microsoft may separate Windows Search from Cortana in Windows 10 19H1 insider build

Posted in: News
News

Microsoft publishes AV1 Video Codec for Windows 10, available on Store for download

November 9, 2018 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Beta version of AV1 Video Extension now available on Microsoft Store for download, by installing it on Windows 10 you can play AV1 videos in Movies & TV app

Posted in: News
Freeware
F.lux 4.84 with grayscale mode

F.lux 4.84 adds grayscale mode for distraction-free reading

November 9, 2018 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
F.lux 4.84 with grayscale mode

f.lux 4.84 update released on November 6, 2018, for Windows, adds grayscale mode and dusk-to-dawn support for Hue lights.

Posted in: Freeware, News
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