As late as 2013, only 14% of the Alexa Top 1M sites supported HTTPS. For the last decade, Chrome participated in a major initiative to increase HTTPS adoption on the web, and to help make the web secure by default. ![]() ![]() Read on to learn about this multi-year journey.īrowsers have shown a lock icon when a site loads over HTTPS since the early versions of Netscape in the 1990s. Editor’s note: based on industry research (from Chrome and others), and the ubiquity of HTTPS, we will be replacing the lock icon in Chrome’s address bar with a new “tune” icon – both to emphasize that security should be the default state, and to make site settings more accessible.
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