[PLUG] Fix SSL Error in Chrome Browser

King Beowulf kingbeowulf at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 01:27:50 UTC 2016


On 03/28/2016 05:55 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 03/28/2016 05:09 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>>     One laptop here running Slackware-14.1/x86_64 has Google Chrome as a web
>> browser. Several sites are inaccessible because of this error:
>> err_ssl_protocol_err. (FWIW, I run chromium and it does not have this
>> issue, but the laptop's user needs the closed-source chrome for some
>> purpose.)
>>
>>     My web searches find all sorts of Microsoft users with this problem. The
>> only solution I saw said to find the options page and change SSL to v2.0;
>> apparently v3.0 is the default that's a vulnerable version not accepted by
>> many sites.
>>
>>     My question is how to find the options page so I can change SSL to the
>> more secure version. Clicking on the icon with 3 horizontal lines offers
>> 'settings' but there's nothing on there about security.
>>
>>     Help needed.
> 
> If history is a guide, someone will probably see some error in my 
> thinking here, but here's what I tried.
> 
> Google foo: Google chrome ssl revert to 2.0
> 
> Result page: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95572?hl=en
> 
> That looks like you were on the right track, but didn't go deep enough. 
> But, since I don't use Chrome, I don't have a way to test it.
> 

That used to be the spot.  Try the Network - Change Proxy Settings
(depends on OS).  The SSL settings location in Chrome and chromium
should be the same for the same major build version.

I run into this sometimes as well, and on Firefox.  You may end up
getting kicked out of some site that required ssl3 however.





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