Chrome announced that it will soon transition the Chrome browser away from the lock icon that signals a secure HTTPS connection and introduce a more neutral icon that they believe will present a ...

Clicking the Tune icon will still give you extra information about the site's HTTPS certificate, plus a few other site-specific settings like those for notifications and location sharing.

As such, the lock icon would be displayed when browsing a website using HTTPS to signal that the network connection was secure. That served a purpose back when HTTPS was uncommon and people needed ...