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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: Mozilla ends Mortar Project

September 30, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Mozilla has ended the Mortar Project, which aims to brings Google’s PDFium and Pepper Flash Plugins into Firefox browser. So PDF.js isn’t going to be replaced by PDFium anymore, you can continue to use it..

Posted in: Firefox, News
News

Vivaldi browser gets tab dragging support

September 30, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Till now, in Vivaldi browser,  you can able to move a tab to new window via context menu : right click on tab, hover … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Vivaldi
Firefox

Mortar Project: Mozilla aims to bring PDFium and Pepper Flash Plugin into Firefox

September 30, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

This is interesting. Mozilla is working on a new Project Mortar, which aims to explore the possibility of bringing PDFium (Google Chrome PDF rendering engine, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News
Firefox
Firefox 52 Adobe Primetime CDM plugin disabled

Firefox 52: Mozilla disables Adobe Primetime CDM Plugin

September 28, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Firefox 52 Adobe Primetime CDM plugin disabled

Untill now, Firefox browser comes with the plugins Wildwine Content Decryption module, Adobe Primtetime CDM (including OpenH264 Video Codec) in activated or enabled state by … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News
Google Chrome
Chrome 55 Material Design in browsers top Chrome flag removed

Google removes the ‘Material Design in the browser’s top Chrome’ flag

September 28, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome 55 Material Design in browsers top Chrome flag removed

You can no longer disable material design in Chrome’s browser starting from version 55. Recently Google has made material design the default UI for Chrome … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Firefox

Firefox 52: Cortana-related Code removed from Firefox Search

September 24, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When Firefox browser was the default browser in Windows 10, with Cortana enabled, the web searches from search box will open in Mozilla browser with … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News
Freeware

Notepad++ v7 released – 64-bit available

September 22, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Finally, 64-bit version of Notepad++ is now available with Notepad++ 7. This version apart from x64 build, comes with new features, bug fixes and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News
News

Vivaldi 1.4 receives a minor update

September 22, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Vivaldi 1.4 stable version has received a minor update, Vivaldi 1.4.589.29  based on Chromium 53.0.2785. 122 has been released and available to download for … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Vivaldi
News
Vivaldi 1.5 lazy tab loading

Lazy Tab Loading comes to Vivaldi 1.5, Activated by default

September 20, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Vivaldi 1.5 lazy tab loading

Finally, Vivaldi browser has got lazy tab loading feature and is activated by default in version 1.5 snapshot. Current Vivaldi 1.5 snapshot, startup settings has a new … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Vivaldi
News
Opera 40 rss reader in personal news

Opera 40 final released with a free built-in VPN, RSS and Chromecast Support

September 20, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Opera 40 rss reader in personal news

Opera 40 final based on Chromium 53 has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms and available for download. Opera 40 brings RSS … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Opera
Freeware

Revo Uninstaller 2.0.1 removes the Ad Panel

September 19, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Recently, Revo Uninstaller 2.0 was released with full 64-bit support and came with an option to export the list of installed programs to a text … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News
Firefox

Firefox 51: Mozilla turns on Insecure Password Warning

September 15, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

In the past, Mozilla has planned for the Firefox browser to display an insecure password warning for HTTP websites/pages that has login form, but not … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News, Security
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