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    Upcoming Chrome update will label HTTP sites ‘not secure’

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    Mallory Locklear
    Mallory Locklear
    02.08.2018

    Chrome has been taking measures to inform users when they're on an unencrypted HTTP website, adding notifications to more and more sites over the last couple of years. Today, Google announced it will be taking that one step further, labeling all HTTP sites as "not secure" starting with the release of Chrome 68. You can see what that will look like in the image below.

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    Chrome on Windows will block third-party apps that cause crashes

    by 
    Rob LeFebvre
    Rob LeFebvre
    12.01.2017

    Google says that around two-thirds of Windows Chrome users use third-party applications that interact directly with the web browser, like antivirus or accessibility software. These apps have typically injected code into Chrome to work correctly, but people that use these kinds of code-injecting apps on Windows are 15 percent more likely to see Chrome crashes. To curtail this issue, Google will start blocking code injection apps from Windows Chrome in three phases, starting in July 2018.