Items tagged with chrome 68
Earlier this month, Google issued a new build of Chrome Canary that allowed users to try out the latest version of the Material Design language. Google enabled the new Material Design by default on the experimental Chrome Canary browser for Windows, Linux and Chrome OS (and with experimental flags on macOS). But for those that don't want to muck around with a work-in-progress browser like Canary, you can now enable the Material Design experience with the Chrome 68 public channel browser release. Below are the steps needed to enable it on desktop and mobile versions of Chrome 68. Desktop Versions of Chrome 68 Paste chrome://flags/#top-chrome-md into the omnibox Find “UI...
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Judgement Day has arrived for site operators that haven't fully switched over to HTTPS. Google Chrome, the world's most popular web browser, has been updated to version 68. And with that upgrade, sites that still rely on plain HTTP will be marked as "Not Secure" within the browser. With Chrome 67 and earlier versions of Chrome, accessing a website that has fully embraced HTTPS will show a closed lock icon and the word "Secure" in green in the address bar. Visiting a site that still uses HTTP would show an "i" icon in the address bar. Clicking on the "i" would present the following prompt: "Your connection to this site is not secure". Chrome 68 With Chrome 68, Google lays it all out for everyone...
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As if developers needed any more reasons to switch over to more secure HTTPS, Google is now giving them an added kick in the butt to quickly make the move starting with the Chrome 68 browser. Chrome 68 will label all HTTP sites as "not secure" when it is released in July. Google is quick to point out that the move to HTTPS has been happening at a rapid pace over the past few years and provided the following statistics: Over 68% of Chrome traffic on both Android and Windows is now protected Over 78% of Chrome traffic on both Chrome OS and Mac is now protected 81 of the top 100 sites on the web use HTTPS by default It should be noted that Google Chrome is by far the most popular browser on the...
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