According to the recent news from the world of webmasters, search engine giants, Microsoft and Google has been sued by a company called Cygnus Systems. This is over the patent of icon Software infringement. The leading company Apple is also involved in the list of companies sued by Cygnus.

The company had already claimed that it holds the patent rights on a feature used by browsers. This feature for common file preview is being used by operating systems for showing the snapshots of files to users, before being opened. The company’s court filings, declare that Windows Vista, Google chrome etc are using this feature.

The company has the rights for the System and the patent of the management of the iconic software. The company had applied for this in the year 2001 and the US Patent and Trademark office granted this in March 2008.

The company is now investigating on some other potentially infringing products, which they have already identified. It is expected that the company will be trying to file suits against several other companies apart from Google, Apple and Microsoft. The company will be publishing this list in a short while when they go for court filing against them.

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Google has introduced Google chrome to make web browsing easier, simpler and faster for the users of chrome. Hence they have mixed the features from various browsers and removed their faults to make a quality browser for the users. When they have modified all the existing features available in the currently available browsers, they have made security too special and unique in chrome.
 
Google uses the blacklists as the first precaution to prevent their users from accessing malicious pages. The blacklists will have the lists of all existing malicious websites, which users are advised to stay away from. Google chrome updates the blacklists constantly to ensure the security of their customers. 
There is the principle of least privilege which will act as a protected mode, that doesn’t allow users to read or write from areas that are forbidden.

Another security step taken by Google chrome is the incognito mode in which the browsing history will not be saved by the browser or the cookies. This gives users a chance to browse secretly, with their browsing details not being exposed to others who use the same account. At the same time, they can use different modes for accessing internet.

Though there is the facility to automatically download pages to the users’ desktop, Google chrome is so designed to change this setting so that, users need not use this, when they are not in need of this feature.

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Google chrome has been introduced with various features unseen in other browsers. Google claim that, this is intended at making the web browsing experience of users really wonderful. One interesting feature found in Google chrome is called the incognito mode in which users can access internet. 

Google explains this as a feature which will allow users to avoid storing of browsing details in the browser. As per this feature, none of the files or other record of browsing will be stored in Google chrome, once the user log off the internet. Google claims that, this will be highly useful when you share the Google account with someone else. In such cases, if you want to give them a surprise or a gift, you can choose to browse in incognito mode. 

The greatest advantage of using this mode, as in Google’s words is that, users can prefer not to use incognito mode if they want so. Anyways, in this mode, it is only the browser that is not storing the details. However the website will have the records of your browsing to that page. Also, the files you have stored in the desktop of your computer during browsing will also remain there itself. The incognito mode is intended to make browsing special and unique in Google chrome.

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Google has successfully launched their latest innovation, the browser called Google chrome. But no sooner than its launch, it had caught the eyes of critics due to the security flaws related to Google chrome. 

One of the main flaws in the security set up of Google chrome is that, chrome is vulnerable to carpet bomb attacks. Since there is the automatic facility to download files, it can happen that malicious files get downloaded into the user’s desktop even without prompting for user permission. The end result is the installation of the malicious code in their desktop. Though, Google had replied this issue saying that, it is possible for users to change the settings as per their need. This will allow users to change the automatic downloading of pages as and when required. 

Another flaw has recently been identified from Google chrome and this is being called “save as” problem. With this problem, the long HTML tag named web pages on saving will cause a stack over flow problem. This will make it easier for attackers to execute any arbitrary code in the user’s desktop. The only requirement for this attack to happen, from the part of the attacker is to somehow provoke the users to open malicious pages.

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Google has introduced its first browser, Google chrome with much surprises and wonders for users. One of the main features ready to surprise users is the user interface of the browser. 

The main interfaces in Google chrome include the back, forward, refresh, go, cancel and bookmark facilities. The interface designed in chrome has taken inspiration from various other existing browsers in one way or the other.

In Google chrome, you will have the option only to resize the text, and will not be able to adjust the display settings of the web pages as a whole. At the same time, it is possible to add developer features through the facility called gears in Google chrome. This is mainly related to the development of web applications. 

The main attraction of Google chrome is the tab. This has been placed on the top of the page rather than that below the controls as in normal browsers. Status bar will not be displayed in the default state. The tabs have their own set of controls in Google chrome. When you place the mouse over a link, in chrome, the address of that link will be displayed in the bottom left corner of the screen.

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