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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

Stardock Fences 3 adds Windows 10 Support and Roll-up Fences Feature

May 19, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Stardock has released Fences 3 with new features, and is available to download. While keeping all the features of its predecessor Fences 2.0, version 3 of … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Software
Freeware

Notepad++ v6.9.2 adds Log Monitoring Feature

May 18, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

After the Folder as workspace feature, Notepad++ has got one of the most requested features –-log monitoring— with version 6.9.2.  Like Unix’s tail -f command, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News
News

Opera 38 lands in the beta channel

May 18, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Opera 38 is now feature complete and available in the beta channel with power saving mode, custom ad-blocking list support, speed dial improvements and … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Opera
Firefox
CTR with location bar 2 settings

Mozilla removes Unified Complete Preference from Firefox

May 12, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
CTR with location bar 2 settings

Unified complete feature, which was released with Firefox 43 and currently exists in version 46, can be disabled using the hidden preference — browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete — … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News
News

Opera 39 gets Useful Power Saving Mode

May 12, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Opera software has made Opera 39 developer stream available to download for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. With this first developer release for version … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Opera
Firefox
Refresh notification after Firefox nightly reinstall

Firefox Reinstall to prompt for a Refresh

May 6, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Refresh notification after Firefox nightly reinstall

We already know Firefox shows a notification to refresh (formerly known as reset) the browser if you’ve not used for 60 days, Mozilla also … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News
News

Vivaldi 1.2 Snapshot offers Editable Mouse Gestures

May 5, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

New snapshot for Vivaldi browser with version number 1.2 470.11 has been released and available to download for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, with … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Vivaldi
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Opera 37 final released with native Ad blocker and Video Pop Out features

May 4, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Opera software has released Opera 37 final for computers with native ad blocker, which has been offered till now in developer stream. Another interesting … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Opera
News

Avast Pulls NG from its Products

April 29, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Security Software company Avast has removed the NG technology from the latest beta version of products, which are going to soon officially release to … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Security
Firefox

Firefox’s new Private browsing page in Nightly

April 29, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Mozilla has changed the Private browsing page design and information in it (slightly) for Firefox browser on Nightly, this will soon appear on beta, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News
Firefox

CCleaner v5.17 Improves Firefox Cleaning and Chrome Extension Management

April 26, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Piriform has released CCleaner version 5.17 and is available to download with new improvements and bug fixes. CCleaner 5.17 has improved Firefox 45 cleaning … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News
Freeware

Microsoft .NET Framework Repair tool adds support for .NET 4.5.2, 4.6 & 4.6.1

April 25, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Microsoft has updated their .NET framework Repair tool to version 1.3 (not to get confused with unofficial .NET framework Cleanup tool) to repair .NET Framework 4.6.1, .NET Framework 4.6 and  .NET … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News
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