- Feb 7, 2014
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The good news is that Chrome 44 fixed numerous bugs. The bad news is it also introduced a bug that causes some sites to fail to render properly while others fail completely with a ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS error message.
Google's development team is well aware of the problem and is working on getting the fix into the Chrome stable channel for an immediate update.
This bug started from the best of intentions. The code was meant to encourage the use of HTTPS for a more secure Web experience. Unfortunately, instead of encouraging the use of a secure link, if one was available, it forced the web browser to redirect to HTTPS pages... even if there were none available, This happened regardless of the web-server's htaccess settings or plugin directives even on sites that have never used https.
Whoops.
Google's development team is well aware of the problem and is working on getting the fix into the Chrome stable channel for an immediate update.
This bug started from the best of intentions. The code was meant to encourage the use of HTTPS for a more secure Web experience. Unfortunately, instead of encouraging the use of a secure link, if one was available, it forced the web browser to redirect to HTTPS pages... even if there were none available, This happened regardless of the web-server's htaccess settings or plugin directives even on sites that have never used https.
Whoops.
