Disable the “Insecure Content” Warning in Google Chrome

When you open a secure (https) website in Google Chrome, the browser may sometimes display a security warning that says – “This page has insecure content.”

A web page contains several CSS and JavaScript files and these may be getting served from different locations. If the page is served over https but the associated files are served from a non-secure http website, the browser will throw the “insecure content” warning. Such a feature is present in IE as well though they call it mixed content.

If you are curious to know why Google, Twitter, Google Docs and other sites display the insecure content warning, open any of these sites in Chrome and press Ctrl + Shift + J. The developer’s console will open in the lower half and you’ll instantly know the files that have caused that annoying insecure content warning.

For instance, the Facebook website serves most of the files from facebook.com over https but it loads the jQuery JavaScript library from googleapis.com over http which leads to that security warning.

Unlike IE, Google Chrome doesn’t offer an easy option to disable these warnings but you can make use of a command-line switch to quickly turn them off.

Just right-click the Google Chrome icon on your desktop, or inside the Windows Start Menu, choose Properties and add the switch “--allow-running-insecure-content” to the target box. Restart Chrome to apply the changes and you won’t see that yellow bar again.

Add Websites to the Apps Section of Google Chrome

The default start page of Google Chrome, that you see when you create a new tab, has two sections.  The “most visited” section contains thumbnails of websites that you visit more often while the other section has shortcuts to web apps that you have installed from the Chrome Web Store.

The “most visited” list is auto-generated based on your browsing history but you can quickly add any of your favorite website to the “apps” section even if that site is not officially available as an installable app in the Chrome Store.

There are two ways of doing this. You can either drag a website thumbnails from the “Most Visited” section to the “Apps” section of Chrome and make that site available as an app. Or you may open a site in a separate tab and drag the site’s favicon to the Apps section as shown in the video below.

You can thus quickly access your favorite sites from the Apps section without installing any extensions. The only limitation is that Chrome won’t generate any thumbnail images for these self-created apps. This tip was originally shared on Reddit.com.

Accelerate Pace Of Chrome

Over the next few months, we are going to be rolling out a new release process to accelerate the pace at which Google Chrome stable releases become available. Running under ideal conditions, we will be looking to release a new stable version about once every six weeks, roughly twice as often as we do today. 

Chrome developers plan to sharply reduce the intervals between the stable versions of the browser. All updates will appear immediately in the test versions, and final edition will be released every six weeks, which is two more often than now, said the Chrome’s blog.

Finished versions will include features allready reached mature and stable code. Outstanding new opportunities will be available only in test versions.
Google’s engineers will stabilize developments within one cycle of preparing a release. It will thus be reduced significantly for consumers to wait for interesting innovations, while maintaining the stability of versions.

Chrome’s popularity is growing rapidly among Internet users. The browser is part of Google’s strategy to offer complete protection of its users. As is known, the company successfully requires a set of web-based applications and soon will launch and operating system.

Accelerate Pace Of Chrome, 8.8 out of 10 based on 5 ratings

Google Chrome Surprise Consumers

For a little more than a year, Google Chrome surprise consumers, especially critics, have gained market share by more than 4 percent in browsers. The result is quite deserved. Chrome 5 is incredibly fast browser more stable than previous versions, supports extensions, bookmarks and some very important developments like HTML5.

Google Chrome is based on WebKit, the same engine open source, whose base is built and Apple Safari, mobile platform Google Android, and several other Web tools. The difference is used in JavaScript, and thus created different interface of Chrome. Instead of traditional instruments, Google Chrome puts tabs at the top. Interestingly, the tabs can be moved to open in new windows and then re-unite in one window with multiple tabs. Another advantage of Chrome is that each tab is represented by a different process and when one of the tabs crashes, the others continue to work.

Search box and address bar are united in a new field called “Omnibox”, which includes proposals for URL addresses selected by the browser history and suggestions for search engine by default. Chrome remembers sites you’ve visited, and a new start, shows you a thumbnail most frequently visited sites. You are creating icons for fast access from desktop computers to web addresses such as Gmail and others. . In stealth mode, Google Chrome lets you surf without recording the history and without the use of cookies.

Google Chrome Surprise Consumers, 10.0 out of 10 based on 1 rating

Accelerate Pace Of Chrome

Over the next few months, we are going to be rolling out a new release process to accelerate the pace at which Google Chrome stable releases become available. Running under ideal conditions, we will be looking to release a new stable version about once every six weeks, roughly twice as often as we do today. 

Chrome developers plan to sharply reduce the intervals between the stable versions of the browser. All updates will appear immediately in the test versions, and final edition will be released every six weeks, which is two more often than now, said the Chrome’s blog.

Finished versions will include features allready reached mature and stable code. Outstanding new opportunities will be available only in test versions.
Google’s engineers will stabilize developments within one cycle of preparing a release. It will thus be reduced significantly for consumers to wait for interesting innovations, while maintaining the stability of versions.

Chrome’s popularity is growing rapidly among Internet users. The browser is part of Google’s strategy to offer complete protection of its users. As is known, the company successfully requires a set of web-based applications and soon will launch and operating system.

Accelerate Pace Of Chrome, 8.8 out of 10 based on 5 ratings