Certificate info missing from the address bar
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Recent Chromium update creator a security issue in most Chromium based browser, I know Chrome & Vivaldi are affect, Opera is not affected.
When you click on the green lock to look at the certificate info it has been missing for a while now, and that can cause security issues as the average user can't look and verify the site certificate (how many of them are going to dig through the developer tools to find the info that used to be in the address bar?). Can't look at who the cert was issued by, when it expires or issued, can't look at the kind and strength of the encryption.
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This was removed from chromium, and yeah, opera fixed it for themselves. Although it has to be said the info provided by opera is very sparse.
If it's important to you having easy access to it you could use an extension until Vivaldi does something about it.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/certviewer/dcfpfgpnkmklbdnicbooifodgdekdgie/related
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Should come back something with chromium 60 (screen of google canary)
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I had the first Chromium/60.x Vivaldi tester version and it is not implemented yet. So i wait until next week for more.
Which Canary version has this re-implemented cert popup?
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@Gwen-Dragon mmh.. i can't say anymore as this canary update itself (it's on 61, now).
But... this feature is under a
chrome://flags-
"Show certificate link" - not enabled by default.
It seems to be the same on chr61.Even this (
--show-cert-link) on chromium 60+ shortcut should work, according tochrome://version
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@Hadden89 Oh, thanks for hint about the flag!
Popup says now that the SSL cert is valid and the link opens the Windows certificate information.0Vivaldi Codecs Linux · My Vivaldi articles
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@Gwen-Dragon Yes, it's not a big "wow info popup" but it's immediate.
I hope vivaldi keep on the flag jumping to chr60 ^^
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@Hadden89 said in Certificate info missing from the address bar:
I hope vivaldi keep on the flag jumping to chr60 ^^
Yes, if you get the (i hope, the first) Snapshot Vivaldi with Chromium/60.x that link will be brought back. There is no need and sense to disable such link.
It is planned to give users a better information popup for certificates of a visited page. But i do not know about the progress.
