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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Google likely knows every site you visit, what you buy online, who you communicate with, and more. It is a solid browser, but you can make it safer. $3,500 iPhone possible?

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 ...

For instance, users of Google Chrome may see their browser display Your connection is not private, ... If you are unable to open any HTTPS web page using Google Chrome, ...