Google Chrome is the most used browser for surfing the Internet in the whole world, hundreds of millions of people using it to access websites from computers, phones, tablets, right now. The very high popularity enjoyed by Google Chrome is growing every year, and the Google company has now announced a very important change designed to make surfing the Internet even better than it is at the moment.
Google Chrome is going to change the way it accesses websites on the Internet, so it will try to access the secure HTTPS version of a website before the unsecured one. At the moment, the exact opposite is happening because Google waited for the Internet to be secured by using HTTPS certificates, and now the number of websites that use this standard is very large, and Google Chrome is also switching to accessing the new standard.
Google Chrome: Very Important Change Officially Announced
Google Chrome has presented in the image above the method by which it now accesses the websites on the Internet, and the method by which they will be accessed after this major change will produce its effects. Switching to this secure method of accessing websites through Google Chrome also comes with a great benefit for all users, and this is because they can enjoy the possibility of accessing the secure version of a website from the start, certain type of attacks phishing can be avoided.
"Chrome will default to HTTPS for most browsing that does not specify a protocol2. HTTPS is the more secure and widely used scheme in Chrome on all major platforms. In addition to being a clear security and privacy improvement, this change improves the initial load speed of sites that support HTTPS, as Chrome will connect directly to the HTTPS endpoint without having to be redirected from http:// / at https: //. For sites that do not yet support HTTPS, Chrome will fall back to HTTP when the HTTPS attempt fails (including when there are certificate errors such as name mismatch or trusted self-signed certificate or connection errors such as resolution failure DNS)."
Google Chrome has implemented diverse security measures designed to protect users around the world when they are directed to websites with malicious content, but this measure is extremely good. It is expected that Google Chrome will offer much, much better protection for all users thanks to this major change, but it will be implemented only in the coming weeks, so we still have to wait until it comes.
Google Chrome has other very important changes in the works at the moment, so it remains to be seen how big will be the surprises that will be offered to us in the not too distant future.
