Google proposed the addition of automatic blocking of high-risk downloads from non-secure websites in future versions of its Chrome web browsers as revealed by a proposal from Google Chrome security ...

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 ...

Starting in January 2017, Google’s web browser, Chrome, will treat any website encoded in HTTP as a non-secure site if it transmits credit card information or passwords, the tech company has revealed.

Much of the web has switched to secure links—that is, when you type in a site like pcworld.com, it serves its pages over an https (“hypertext transfer protocol secure”) connection rather than over non ...

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Chrome 80 this week began efforts to make sure secure pages serve HTTPS audio and video. Google now wants to protect users from insecure files by gradually blocking mixed content downloads. Non-HTTPS ...

Google recommends people switch to Google Chrome when they view the Chrome web store through Microsoft Edge. The warning says that people should switch to Chrome to "use extensions securely." ...

Google today announced its latest steps for how Chrome labels HTTP and HTTPS sites. Starting in December 2019, Chrome will get a new setting to unblock mixed content (insecure HTTP subresources on ...