Google has taken an important step in improving the security of the Chrome browser: 100% of users accessing unsafe HTTP links will automatically upgrade to HTTPS requests.
This feature is called HTTPS-Upgrades. After the user visits the old link of http://, it will automatically try to jump to the encrypted https:// protocol to access the website.
Google started rolling out the feature in the Chrome browser in July this year, and Google has rolled out the feature to all users in the stable channel starting on October 16.
“We enabled HTTPS-Upgrades by default in the master branch last week and have now pushed it to all stable releases,” said Chris Thompson, head of engineering program management at Google.
More information about HTTPS-Upgrades can be found here. Once enabled, Chrome will automatically upgrade all URLs starting with http:// to https://, which is a more secure protocol that can encrypt users’ network traffic. Chrome will try to upgrade even if the user clicks a link that explicitly states http://. If the upgrade fails, Chrome will fall back to http://.
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