Chrome no longer shows the padlock next to the address bar, so the control you need for site details looks different from the older instructions you may have saved. It is the tune icon left of the web address, and it opens a panel for the page in your current tab.
Use that panel to check the connection, inspect the certificate, or change what the site is allowed to do with your camera, microphone, location, and notifications.
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Find Site Information Next to the Address Bar
You want to check whether Chrome trusts the page you’re on, or you need to change what the site is allowed to do. Both start from the same control, the one sitting just left of the web address.
On current Chrome releases that control is the tune 
control, not the padlock your older instructions show. Same panel, different look.
- Open the website you want to inspect in Google Chrome.
- Click the View site information control, shown as the tune to the left of the web address.
Chrome opens a panel for the current site. If you changed permissions here before, the saved controls may appear straight away instead of making you pick a menu entry.
Chrome replaced the address-bar padlock with the tune . The icon and status text change with the connection, so a different appearance does not mean a different control.
What the Site Information Panel Shows You
The panel mixes connection details with the controls for data and permissions. Which entries you see depends on the connection, the website, and your Chrome version, so a shorter list than someone else’s is normal.
- Connection status tells you whether Chrome considers the connection secure.
- Certificate information opens the certificate details behind a secure connection.
- Cookies and site data opens the controls for what the website has stored.
- Site settings opens permissions and the rest of the per-site choices.
- Reset permissions appears when you have changed preferences that can be restored.
If the page layout is the problem rather than a permission, that is a different switch: Enable Mobile Site View in Google Chrome on the Computer covers Chrome’s desktop-site control.
Check Connection Security and Certificate Details
Something about the page feels off and you want proof of who is on the other end. The certificate won’t tell you whether the site is honest, but it does show who issued it, what name it covers, and when it expires.
- Open the website you want to check in Chrome.
- Click the View site information control to the left of the web address.
- Select Connection is secure.
- Select the certificate entry displayed beneath the secure-connection status.
You’ll know it worked when the certificate window opens with the issued-to name, issuer, organization, and validity dates for the site. If Chrome reports an insecure connection, there may be no certificate entry to open at all.
Change Permissions for the Current Site
A site keeps asking for your camera, your location, or notifications, and you want it to stop. Or it blocked something you now need. Everything in this panel applies to the one site open in the tab.
- Open the website whose permissions you want to change.
- Click the View site information control.
- If saved permission controls are not already visible, select Site settings.
- Find the permission you want to control, such as Camera and microphone, Location, Notifications, or Sound.
- Open the control for that permission.
- Choose Ask, Allow, or Block, depending on the options Chrome displays.
- Reload the tab if the website does not reflect the change immediately.
You’ll know it worked when the chosen permission still shows your setting after you reopen the panel. Chrome applies it to that site alone, not to every website you visit.
Depending on the site and your Chrome version, the same panel may also list Clipboard, Local network access, Payment handlers, Third-party sign in, Protected Content IDs, or File editing.
Android handles this differently, so viewing site information and permissions in Chrome on Android needs its own steps.
Reset Changed Site Permissions
A permission you set months ago is now causing trouble, or a site won’t stop nagging. Reset the choices first, before you touch cookies or cache. That returns the permission preferences to their defaults and leaves the rest of your browsing data alone.
- Open the website in Chrome.
- Click the View site information control.
- Select when the button is available.
You’ll know it worked when the panel shows default settings again. Expect the site to ask for access the next time it wants your camera or location.
Reset permissions changes permission choices only. It is not the same as the site data controls you use to remove stored cookies or cache.
Chrome also expires permissions for sites you haven’t visited in a while. An old site can drop back to a default choice and ask again.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where is View site information in Chrome on a computer?
It is the tune control immediately to the left of the web address. Click View site information to open the panel for the site currently shown in the tab.
Why is the padlock missing from Chrome?
Chrome replaced the old address-bar padlock with the tune . The control’s appearance changes to reflect the connection status, but its location and purpose stay the same.
How do I change site settings without opening certificate details?
Click View site information, then select Site settings. If Chrome already displays saved permissions in the panel, you can adjust them there instead.
Does Connection is secure mean a website is safe?
No. Connection is secure shows that Chrome established a secure connection with a valid certificate, but it is not an endorsement of the website or its owner.
Does Reset permissions delete cookies and cache?
No. Reset permissions restores changed permission choices. Clearing cookies, cache, or other stored site data is a separate action.
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