Google will retire Chrome’s HTTPS padlock icon because no one knows what it means Google says only 11% of users understand "the precise meaning of the lock icon." ...

Google is adding a new feature to Chrome 117 that will proactively alert you when an extension isn’t in the Chrome Web Store. The company is also going to automatically upgrade URLs with HTTP to ...

CVE-2025-6554 is the fourth zero-day vulnerability in Chrome to be addressed by Google since the start of the year after ...

Google has issued a critical security update for its Chrome browser to fix a zero day vulnerability that is being actively ...

Google eventually went so far as to make the secure HTTPS connection a ranking factor, which motivated holdouts who still insisted that HTTPS was pointless for non-ecommerce sites. Chrome’s ...

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.

Google previously tried to get rid of the lock icon in 2018. Back then, HTTPS sites still carried a green lock and a "Secure" tag. That same year, the design was tweaked to the current lock icon ...

But now HTTPS is commonplace, even for malicious sites, Google said, so you shouldn't misread the icon as indicating that a site is actually trustworthy. Chrome's lock symbol will be based on this ...

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