Google is redesigning the Page Info menu in Chrome for Android. You won’t see radical changes in the UI, but you’ll notice the new “Permissions” option that displays Locations, Notifications and Sound options inside. Similarly, the number of cookies in use and blocked are moved to a separate page as well. Details link in connection info has been removed, the certificate and connection information will be displayed when you tap on connection info text in Page info UI.
Further more, the full URL won’t be shown by default unless you tap on the domain in Page Info. For instance, https://www.example.com/about, will be displayed as www.example.com.
Unless you interact with Page info, you won’t see the new changes. The bug description claims the new sub pages introduced in Page info will offer more control.
To get started,
- Launch Chrome Canary
- Visit chrome://flags page
- Search for “Page Info version two”
Page Info version two flag - Select ” Enabled” from the drop down and restart the browser
Visit a website and tap on the security indicator (lock icon) in address bar to see the new Page Info menu.
Tapping on
- Domain shows the full URL of the current page,
- “connection is secure” text displays the the connection info as well as certificate details
- Permissions displays whether the current website can show Notifications or has access to Location and Sound
- Cookies will show Cookies in use or that were blocked.
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