Chrome will soon try HTTPS first when you type an incomplete URL
Summary
From pioneering features like Site Isolation and working behind the scenes at the CA/B Forum to improve the state of the TLS certificate business, we all owe a great deal of gratitude to the Chrome team. But one of the biggest areas of interest for Chrome engineers over the past few years has been in pushing and promoting the use of HTTPS, both inside their browser, but also among website owners. Chrome also warns users when theyre about to enter passwords or payment card data on unsecured HTTP pages, from where they might be sent across a network in plaintext. Changes to the Chrome Omnibox arriving in v90 But even if around 82% of all internet sites run on HTTPS, these efforts are far from done. The latest of these HTTPS-first changes will arrive in Chrome 90, scheduled to be released in mid-April, this year.