In a nutshell: Google will soon be doing away with a staple of the Internet for Chrome browser users. The familiar padlock icon in the URL bar will be retired later this year in favor of a variant of ...

Chrome 94 will offer an HTTPS-first mode that demands secure pages from every website. Chrome 93, meanwhile, will scrap the potentially misleading lock icon as part of a test. Google will also ...

Google has announced a big change to its Chrome browser this month announcing that from version 117 the browser will no longer feature the lock icon when a site loads over HTTPS. Initially added to ...

Google is bringing a subtle yet controversial change to its Chrome web browser. Beginning with Chrome 117, secure HTTPS connections will no longer have a padlock icon next to the URL. Instead, users ...

Google Chrome will no longer show whether a site you are visiting is secure and only show when you visit an insecure website. For years, Google has been making a concerted effort to push websites into ...