Google Chrome Is Ditching the Lock Icon for Websites
Google plans to roll out new lock icon for HTTPS in Chrome 117. It’s available now in Chrome Canary as part of the Chrome Refresh 2023 redesign.
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Microsoft Adds DNS-over-HTTPS to Windows 11
DNS-over-HTTPS is a privacy feature in Windows 11 that allows users to evade censorship and Internet activity by doing encrypted DNS lookups.
How to Turn On HTTPS-Only Mode in Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox HTTPS-Only Mode provides extra privacy and security online. With it enabled, Firefox will try hard to only load encrypted HTTPS websites.
Chrome Disables Autofill In Insecure HTTP Forms on HTTPS Sites
Starting in Chrome 86, Chrome will automatically block autofill on HTTP forms. Even if your site is secured with HTTPS, if your forms aren’t set to be…
United States wants HTTPS for all government sites, all the time
The US government just announced its plans for HTTPS on all dot-gov sites. HTTPS, of course, is short for for “secure HTTP”, and it’s the system that puts the…
How To Enable DNS over HTTPS in Google Chrome Browser
Over the past few years, tech companies like Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla are pushing forward with DNS over HTTPS. Well, it’s an important technology to…
Mozilla rolls out DNS over HTTPS by default for U.S. Firefox users
Mozilla is activating DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for all Firefox users in the U.S., nearly two years after the company first started testing the protocol.…
Google to Experiment ‘DNS over HTTPS’ (DoH) Feature in Chrome 78
Immediately after Mozilla announced its plan to soon enable ‘DNS over HTTPS‘ (DoH) by default for Firefox users in the United States, Google today says it is…
Chrome Now Hides WWW and HTTPS:// in Addresses. Do You Care?
Google Chrome 76, released a few days ago, has a surprising change: It hides the www. and https:// for website addresses in the omnibox, or address bar. This…
Still not using HTTPS? Firefox is about to shame you
Two years after promising to report all HTTP-based web pages as insecure, Mozilla is about to deliver. Soon, whenever you visit one of the shrinking number of…