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Before somewhere around Chrome 55, I could look at the details of a certificate a website is using by clicking on the Green lock icon. Now that functionality seems to be gone; see picture below.

How can I bring this back? I know I can go into Developer Console -> Security but it's tad bit inconvenient.

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Jason S
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tyteen4a03
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  • Functionality still exists, verified on multiple Pcs – Ramhound Dec 27 '16 at 01:40
  • @Ramhound Mine looks like this: http://imgur.com/a/AE7IC – tyteen4a03 Dec 27 '16 at 01:41
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    I spent some time myself looking around in the Chrome UI and not finding any way to view the actual certificate without going to the Security tab in devtools. So I think the answer is, that’s now the only way—there is no longer any way from lock icon or other normal menus to get to “View certificate” and the protocol/key-exchange/cipher details. – sideshowbarker Dec 27 '16 at 05:39
  • This still works for me: Lock Icon > Details > View Certificate (Windows 7, Chrome 55). I suppose this is an anomaly specific to the macOS version of Google Chrome. – Hydraxan14 Dec 27 '16 at 20:46
  • @mockturtl I am not on Chrome 57. I've had it for several versions now, and I'm not exactly sure when they changed the behaviour on OSX. – tyteen4a03 Dec 31 '16 at 06:11
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    seeing this now: worst decision ever by google. i can not think of one valid reason why this should be moved somewhere else. mindblowingly stupid. – user3549596 Feb 08 '17 at 01:20
  • Boooo! What was Google thinking to hide important info from the average user. We should make this easier to find not harder!!! – Richard Brightwell Mar 09 '17 at 12:26
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    Please vote (star) for the bug at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=663971 – Colonel Panic Mar 10 '17 at 11:01
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    Apparently a future version will have put this back into page info: https://textslashplain.com/2017/05/02/inspecting-certificates-in-chrome/ – legoscia Jun 20 '17 at 14:06
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    @legoscia https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=663971 confirms this: Re #100: The certificate link will be available by default in a future release. – phil294 Sep 02 '17 at 04:46
  • It's still not available in Version 61.0.3163.100 (Official Build) (64-bit). – Chloe Oct 15 '17 at 00:14

7 Answers7

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You can now find this information in Developer Tools. Three Dots Menu > More Tools > Developer Tools, then click the "Security" tab and you'll get a "Security Overview" with a "View certificate" button.

Tim Wilde
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As of Chrome 60 it is possible to return certificate details under "lock" menu. This option has to be enabled manually by accessing chrome://flags/#show-cert-link.

When you enable it and restart the Chrome, option to view certificate will be visible when you click on lock icon.

Menu with Certificate option

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  • This feature seems not to be available on v.65 on Mac OS. Following chrome://flags/#show-cert-link directly lists no results. Likewise, when searching for show-cert-link, no results are listed. – razumny Apr 11 '18 at 19:02
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    I cannot say for Mac OS with full certainity but on Mint/Ubuntu and Windows, his behavior now seems to be default and thus this flag is no longer necessary. – Josip Medved Apr 12 '18 at 20:18
  • I could've sworn I didn't have an option to display the certificate info. Thanks, man! – razumny Apr 15 '18 at 20:15
  • How about for websites that are not trusted? – Melab Aug 12 '21 at 18:09
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From that menu, you have to follow below path:

Click on "Customize and control Google Chrome" >> More tools >> Developer tools >> Security >> View Certificate.

Check this screen-shot:

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Or...

Simply press F12 >> Security >> View Certificate.

For Mac Users:

⌘ + Option + i
Gunjan Tripathi
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Ctrl+Shift+I brings up Security Overview in Chrome 56.

MJH
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J. Woolley
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Not sure why this hasn't been mentioned yet, but you can hit F12 to bring up the developer window, and then switch to the 'Security' tab to view the certificates. May be easier than Ctrl + Shift + I.

Korbman
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I have Chromium 55 on one OS and Chromium 56 on another, so can see the difference. An unwelcome change, but the 'developer tools' tab remembers settings, so all I have to do to check the cert in Chromium 56 is click F12, and then 'View Certificate,' as before.

Timoteo
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You can click on the icon to the left of the URL, which is the letter 'i' in a circle. The Details link has an option to view the SSL certificate.

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