Heartbleed is a scary thing. Aside from the violent-sounding name, the vulnerability in OpenSSL security protocols spans the entire internet and affects most of the sites we know, love, and use
It’s pretty much agreed that Google’s Secure Socket Layer
In the midst of the revelations about the NSA’s sweeping surveillance program
Chrome users with something to hide have heretofore been required to sign in to Google to keep their omnibox searches hidden from prying eyes — but today’s Chrome 25 beta update changes that. Now all searches are automatically encrypted, whether you’re signed in or not. It’s certainly not the first browser to implement such a security feature — Firefox 14 switched to HTTPS for all searches last year — but it’s a welcome change all the same. With web voice recognition and security whitelists on the docket as well, the latest version of Chrome is setting up to be quite the must-have, especially for those who want to keep their Justin Bieber search results to themselves.
Source: Chromium Blog