Just Another Tech Blog » Chrome http://www.justanothertech.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:02:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Chrome News http://www.justanothertech.com/blog/2009/01/30/chrome-news/ http://www.justanothertech.com/blog/2009/01/30/chrome-news/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:43:42 +0000 anothertech http://www.justanothertech.com/blog/?p=18 I remember that I was rather surprised to see Google try and enter the Browser market last year with its Chrome offering. Given the relatively recent demise of Netscape and the growing lead of FireFox, it would seem a fairly hard market to crack. This is also to not forget about the never-ending security vulnerabilities that plague all browser platforms; the browser is after all the potential front door to your computer and all it may contain.

That said, a feature announced in the pre-beta Version 2.0 release that will force HTTPS only browsing seems an interesting approach to the security issue. Any site with an invalid SSL certificate will simply not load.

I can imagine for the general user this will likely be received about as well as Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) with many users searching frantically to find out how to turn it off (given the choice between dancing bunnies and security most users still unfortunately choose dancing bunnies). For the corporate environment however, this could be a big plus to protecting their users.

I don’t imagine that Chrome will see a foot in the door anytime in the short term, but it would seem they are trying to knock at least.

Want to know more:

Google adds HTTPS-only browsing to Chrome

Chromium Developer Documentation

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