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 ...

The padlock is used to represent HTTPS universally across Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, and other browsers, and in those browsers, you can also click on the icon to access more details about the ...

Most modern web browsers use a lock icon to let you know if you’re visiting a site that that uses HTTPS for secure connections or not. But Google says in recent years HTTPS has become the rule ...

Beginning with Chrome 117, secure HTTPS connections will no longer have a padlock icon next to the URL. Instead, users will see a “tune” icon, which looks like the on/off toggles in the ...