Problems with Gmail security in Chrome

by Denny Whipple

A couple days ago I noticed that when using the Google Chrome browser and accessing my gmail account, there was a red slash through the https: portion of the address in the address bar.  My email account was not secured and after doing some research online, I determined that the problem was being caused by an extension that was installed in Chrome.  The article that I read said the problem was being caused by an extention in Chrome called fastestchrome.  I checked my extensions and I didn't have that particular extension installed but I did have one called the GamePlayLab plugin.  I disabled this and whoopdedoo, gmail is now encrypted in Chrome.

This is how to check your extensions and then disable extensions in Chrome.  Go to the wrench icon on the right side of the address bar at the top of the browser window.  Click it and then choose Tools and then choose Extensions.  When you click Extensions the browser will open a window that shows the extensions you have installed.  If you don't see the two extensions that I mentioned earlier in this article, you'll have to experiment by disabling one extension at a time and checking gmail until you get the right one disabled.  When you get the correct one disabled gmail will now be encrypicted again in Chrome.

This problem only happened to me in Chrome and not IE or Opera.  It's something that Google needs to address but at least you can use this method to get gmail encrypted again.