No Green address bar in Chrome Browser anymore

Google Chrome version 77 is released now for Windows, Linux, macOS, ChromeOS, IOS and Android users. The new release removed the UI indicator for Extended Validation (EV) certificates from the browser's address bar, it is also known as "Green Address Bar".The Green address bar trust indicator was the main trust indicator in the browsers for more than 10-years. Google said the EV indicators were rather useless at conveying information about the security and authenticity of the sites a user was accessing and removed them from the browser UI. Many security researchers agreed with Google's decision.

EV information will still be available, but not presented to users in such a prominent space in the URL bar. Instead, it will be relegated to the drop-down panel that appears when pressing a site's green padlock indicator, next to the other TLS information. This indicator will be also removed from FireFox browsers soon.

However, not all is that bad. To be honest, the CAs haven't invested in that trust indicator since it was published long time ago. Now it is time to refresh the technology. We already have new trust features for EV certs coming Q1 2020.