Chrome will finally make secure URLs the default—in a year

Websites still serve their pages via vulnerable redirects. Google has now set a deadline to disallow that happening ...
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When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?

The answer is that new versions of Web APIs, such as the DOM, are not needed to make them usable from Wasm; the existing ...

Google Chrome to warn users before opening insecure HTTP sites

Google announced today that the Chrome web browser will ask for permission by default before connecting to public, insecure HTTP websites, beginning with Chrome 154 i026.

Google Chrome will finally default to secure HTTPS connections starting in April

The transition to the more-secure HTTPS web protocol has plateaued, according to Google. As of 2020, 95 to 99 percent of navigations in Chrome use HTTPS. To help make it safer for users to click on ...

Google is making HTTPS the default in Chrome in a very smart way

For over a decade, Google has been on a mission to make the web a safer place by pushing for the adoption of HTTPS. This week ...