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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 Photon Onboarding Tour

June 27, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

For users installing Firefox 56 for the first time Mozilla to show onboarding overlay which appears when you click on the fox icon in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News
Google Chrome

PSA: Redirected to chrome-updates.win phishing site? Remove VPN Extensions

June 26, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Whenever you open a New tab page in Chrome if you’ve been redirected to https://chrome-updates.win/s.html page, without further thinking uninstall or remove the VPN extensions … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News, Security
News

Opera 47 now lets you Export Bookmarks

June 20, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Chrome, Firefox and Vivaldi browsers offer bookmarks export tool which Opera browser lacks, the browser which is based on Chromium allows to import bookmarks … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Opera
News

Vivaldi 1.11 adds Configuration Panel for Reader Mode

June 20, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

First Vivaldi 1.11 snapshot for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms has been released and available for download. The snapshot apart from fixing bugs found … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Vivaldi
Google Chrome

Chrome is getting Picture In Picture Feature

June 14, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Opera has Video Pop Out feature, which Chrome doesn’t have, but till version 54, Chromium has allowed users to get that feature by installing … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Firefox
About sync tabs removed

Firefox 55 : about:sync-tabs page removed

May 31, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
About sync tabs removed

Synced tabs in Firefox browser till now can be accessed from menu, sidebar and by visiting the about:sync-tabs page. The last one which hasn’t … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News
Freeware
Notepad document peeking

Notepad++ 7.4 adds document peek feature

May 16, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Notepad document peeking

Inspired from Microsoft Edge browser tab previews feature, Notepad++ developer has added document peek feature to version 7.4 and is available for download with … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News
News
Malwarebytes 3.1 free automatic monthly scheduled scan

Malwarebytes 3.1 Free version adds Automatic Monthly Scheduled Scan

May 15, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Malwarebytes 3.1 free automatic monthly scheduled scan

Malwarebytes 3 version available till now has only allowed Malwarebytes Premium and trial users to automate scans schedule by clicking ‘schedule scan’ tab in … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Security
News
Vivaldi browser toggle images

Vivaldi 1.10 lets you control display of images from View menu, offers a Shortcut

May 15, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Vivaldi browser toggle images

Vivaldi team is kept on adding new features and fixing bugs and improving the browser in Snapshot version 1.10. Till now Vivaldi 1.10 has … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Vivaldi
News
Customize Vivaldi new tab page extensions

You can now Customize Vivaldi New Tab Page with Extensions

May 9, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Customize Vivaldi new tab page extensions

Vivaldi has added ‘Controlled by Extension’ option New Tab Page settings. Vivaldi by default, sets New Tab Page to Start Page, so whenever you open … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Vivaldi
News
Downloads sorting

Vivaldi 1.10: Downloads Sorting and Set desktop wallpaper as Start Page background Image

May 5, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Downloads sorting

The recent snapshot version of Vivaldi 1.10 made devtools dockable and the stable release 1.9 came with notes sorting feature, today, the Vivaldi team … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Vivaldi
News
NET framework 4.7 offline installer

Download Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 Offline Installer

May 3, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
NET framework 4.7 offline installer

A  month ago, Microsoft released .NET Framework 4.7 as part of Windows 10 Creators Update,  now the company has made .NET 4.7 generally available for … [Read more…]

Posted in: News
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