
: : Chromium Blog News and developments from the open source browser project A safer default for navigation : HTTPS Tuesday , March 23, 2021 Starting in version 90, Chrome’s address bar will use https : by default , improving privacy and even loading speed for users visiting websites that support HTTPS . Chrome users who navigate to websites by manually typing a URL often don’t include http : or https : For example , users often type example.com” instead of https : example.com” in the address bar . In this case , if it was a user’s first visit to a website , Chrome would previously choose http : as the default protocol 1 This was a practical default in the past , when much of the web did not support . HTTPS Chrome will now default to HTTPS for most typed navigations that don’t specify a