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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 57 Nightly: Photon Rectangular Tabs, New Icons and more

August 4, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Recently Firefox Nightly has upgraded to version 57, which is the main version that ships Photon Interface. The major work for Photon has been … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News
Firefox

Firefox 55.0.3 release fixes bugs

August 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Mozilla has released Firefox 55.0.3 to address file upload bug and add-ons issue when using a path containing non-ascii characters

Posted in: Firefox, News
Firefox
Firefox Photon toolbar UI without downloads button

Firefox 57 Photon : No Downloads Icon in the toolbar

August 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Firefox Photon toolbar UI without downloads button

Firefox 57 shows the downloads button in the toolbar only when you download something, otherwise it will be hidden. This is intentional Photon design change.

Posted in: Firefox, News
Firefox

Firefox 57 lets you Prevent Accessibility tools from accessing the browser

August 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

A new privacy preference for accessibility has been added to ‘Privacy & Security’ section of Reorganized settings in Firefox 57, which, when enabled, prevents … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News
Firefox
Firefox Notes test pilot experiment with dark theme

Firefox Notes Test Pilot add-on gains dark theme and a Keyboard Shortcut

August 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Firefox Notes test pilot experiment with dark theme

Firefox Notes, Firefox Test Pilot Experiment has been updated to bring Dark theme option and a keyboard shortcut Alt+Shift+W to quickly open Notes in Sidebar,

Posted in: Firefox, News
News

You no longer need to register Avast Free Antivirus

August 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

You no longer need to register to use Avast Free antivirus, till the date from it’s installation, you can use it for one year, no license key is required.

Posted in: News, Security
News

Avast’s Web Shield now blocks Phishing Sites Also

August 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Avast Web Shield now blocks Phishing sites without even Avast Online Security extension installed in the browser.

Posted in: News, Security
News

Vivaldi 1.12 snapshot fixes Netflix issue

August 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

After Vivaldi 1.11 release, few days back Vivaldi team has released first snapshot for Vivaldi 1.12 with fixes to bugs and regressions found in … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Vivaldi
Google Chrome

Chrome tests Site Muting feature

August 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Chrome’ s experimental feature to allow user to permanently mute websites. For that, run Chrome with a flag which enables sound setting in page info bubble.

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
News

Vivaldi : Sort Downloads by Type

August 1, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Vivaldi 1.12 offers an option in the sidebar to sort downloads by type

Posted in: News, Vivaldi
News

Latest Opera dev improves Snapshot tool, adds Feedback button

July 31, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Today, the Opera Desktop team has released an update for Opera 48 dev that improves Screen Capture tool (now they’re calling it as snapshot … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Opera
News

Vivaldi 1.11 lets you disable GIF animations in the browser

July 31, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Vivaldi has added ‘Load Animations’ section above the existing Load Images, which appears when you click ‘Toggle Images’ icon in the status bar. When … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Vivaldi
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