Category: browser security

Chrome will soon let you know if a web form is unsecure

Post author By Randall
Post date August 17, 2020
Categories In browser, browser security, browsersecurity, chrome, chrome 86, chrome86, forms, gear, Google, google chrome, googlecrome, http, https, News, Privacy, Security, Tech, user privacy, userprivacy

[ad_1] Moving forward, Chrome will disable autofill on mixed forms, so that the page isn’t automatically populated with potentially sensitive or private information about you. If a mixed form has login or password prompts, you’ll still be able to use Chrome’s password manager. That helps people enter unique passwords and it’s “safer to use unique […]

Chrome will block HTTP content from loading on secure sites

Post author By Randall
Post date October 4, 2019
Categories In block, browser, browser security, chrome, chrome 79, chrome 80, chrome 81, default, gear, Google, https, Internet, mixed content, Security, subresources, Tech, user privacy

[ad_1] According to Google, Chrome users now spend over 90 percent of their browsing time on HTTPS on all major platforms. But it’s common for those secure pages to load insecure HTTP subresources. Many of those subresources are blocked by default, but some sneak in as images, audio and video, or “mixed content.” That mixed […]