Beginning with Chrome 117, secure HTTPS connections will no longer have a padlock icon next to the URL. Instead, users will see a “tune” icon, which looks like the on/off toggles in the ...

The padlock icon indicating website security has appeared in the URL bar of web browsers for so long that it’s practically become part of the furniture at this point — which is exactly why ...

The company notes how “browsers have shown a lock icon when a site loads over HTTPS since the early versions of Netscape in the 1990s.” As of today, over 95% of page loads in Chrome (for ...

The lock icon will be changed in Chrome 117 with a "variant of the tune icon," a user interface element commonly linked to app settings and designed to show that it's a clickable item.

Because of that confusion and because HTTPS is now expected for most sites, Chromium will retire the padlock icon starting in Chrome 117, slated for release in September alongside a larger refresh ...