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1. CHROME MENU ICON WINDOWS 10
2. CHROME MENU ICON WINDOWS

Chrome will continue to warn users when the connection is not secure, just without the lock imagery. So following the presumably successful experimental removal of the icon in Chrome 93 two years ago, the lock icon is finally on its way out and into the famous Google Graveyard alongside Stadia and friends. To further justify interface meddling, Google's security gurus point to a separate study from 2007, just 16 years ago, that found users ignore HTTPS indicators of web security. Nearly all phishing sites use HTTPS, and therefore also display the lock icon "This misunderstanding is not harmless - nearly all phishing sites use HTTPS, and therefore also display the lock icon," Google's Chrome Security Team notes. The Chocolate Factory, in conjunction with others like Mozilla, began refining how browsers presented their security state back in 2015 and later embarked on a plan to mark HTTP as "non-secure" rather than treating a secure HTTPS connection as something noteworthy.ĭespite various interface changes in recent years to clarify that a secure, encrypted connection does not guarantee the trustworthiness of a website, only 11 percent of web users surveyed by Google in 2021 understood the limited meaning of the lock icon.

CHROME MENU ICON WINDOWS

'Major' news: Microsoft slips Bing chatbot shortcut into Windows 11.Google once again stalls Chrome content-blocker shakeup."Today, this is no longer true, and HTTPS is the norm, not the exception, and we've been evolving Chrome accordingly." "When HTTPS was rare, the lock icon drew attention to the additional protections provided by HTTPS," explained David Adrian, Serena Chen, Joe DeBlasio, Emily Stark, and Emanuel von Zezschwitz, from the Chrome Security Team in a blog post. During those early years of the web, insecure connections were common and secure sessions were unusual. Prior versions of the browser used a key icon to signify a secure connection. The lock icon dates back to Netscape Navigator 4.0, which was released in June 1997. This way I got the Google-apps icons to look the way I wanted.Binary finally. of course the name of the shortcut needs to be changed to the one specific for your case.Menu\Programs\Chrome-apps\Google Maps.lnk").lastwritetime = get-date the command for this is: (ls "C:\Users\leo\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start.

CHROME MENU ICON WINDOWS 10

so I changed the lastwritetime using "powershell" (present in Windows 10 by default).(It is sufficient if the "lastwritetime" of the shortcut changes). The power of the Chrome Browser can be enhanced when visiting the browser’s settings. When you click the Chrome menu icon, you’ll see the extension button at the top of the menu. To do this, right-click on the button you want to hide, and select Hide in Chrome menu from the drop-down menu. the tile is refreshed however if the shortcut is changed. If you want to hide a button from the toolbar, you can do so by moving it to the Chrome dropdown menu.if we remove (or rename) the file "VisualElementsManifest.xml" at first nothing happens.in case the file"VisualElementsManifest.xml" is missing, the icon of the shortcut is used for the tile.Program "chrome.exe" to have the same big "icon".

a tile is made, based on this shortcut AND the before mentioned file "VisualElementsManifest.xml". a shortcut for the program is made in the directory ".\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs". When you add a program to the start menu, the following happens: To the directory in which the executable resides. This customizing is done by adding a file "VisualElementsManifest.xml" Google uses this feature, which makes some of us unhappy. Microsoft added the possibility to customize the tiles in the start Google-apps all "icons" are the same are not caused by a fault, butĪre "according to spec". The big Google-"icon" on the start-menu and the fact that for I found the following explanation by "Leo Vr" on the Chrome Help Forum: The big Google-'icon' on the start-menu and the fact that for Google-apps all 'icons' are the same are not caused by a fault, but are 'according to spec'.

It looks like this issue is caused by a quirk in the standard way Windows 10 picks an icon for a tile.