{"id":1275,"date":"2011-04-13T12:54:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T18:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2016-06-02T22:00:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T03:00:40","slug":"how-to-set-google-ssl-search-as-your-default-search-engine-in-chrome-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/how-to-set-google-ssl-search-as-your-default-search-engine-in-chrome-os\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Set Google SSL Search as Your Default Search Engine in Chrome OS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today I was at Which Wich<\/a> with my Cr-48, but using Freebird’s<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0WiFi. I didn’t have a problem with browsing the web, because most of my stuff was through Google Services and was over SSL. Everything except Search itself.<\/p>\n

I started poking around to see what happens if you force https on a Google Search, and it turns out you’re redirected to:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/encrypted.google.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then I wondered how to make this my default search engine without the use of plugins. It turns out it’s very simple.<\/p>\n

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  1. Do a Google Search using the above URL, and you’ll notice the basic format is:\u00c2\u00a0https:\/\/encrypted.google.com\/search?<\/strong><insert-a-bunch-of-parameters<\/a>>&q=<query><\/strong>. We are just interested in the bolded part of that fake URL:\u00c2\u00a0https:\/\/encrypted.google.com\/search?q=<query><\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. In Chrome OS, click the Wrench<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0menu, click Options<\/strong>, then go to Basics<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0and find the Search<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0section. Click on Manage search engines…<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0button.<\/li>\n
  3. You’ll get a window with all the Search Engines that your Chrome OS knows about. At the bottom of the “Other search engines” list, you’ll see a row for adding a new search engine.\n
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    1. In “Add a new search engine<\/strong>“, put something like: Google SSL<\/strong><\/li>\n
    2. In “Keyword<\/strong>“, put something like: encrypted.google.com<\/strong><\/li>\n
    3. In “URL with %s in place of query<\/strong>“, put\u00c2\u00a0the URL we made from above:\u00c2\u00a0https:\/\/encrypted.google.com\/search?q=%s<\/strong><\/li>\n
    4. Hit Enter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    5. Hover over the newly created search engine entry, and click Make Default<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0when the button appears over the URL column.<\/li>\n
    6. Then try out a new search in the Omnibox and it should be SSL’d through Google’s SSL Beta search service.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      That’s all there is to it. You can add more search parameters if you like via the Google Search parameter documentation<\/a>. Also, you can (and should) perform the same steps on your desktop version of Chrome Browser as well. Sorry I don’t have any screenshots of it actually in action on Chrome OS – I haven’t found a decent screenshot tool that lets me capture the UI of Chrome outside of the web pages.<\/p>\n

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      A simple solution to forcing all your Google Searches to be done over HTTPS on your Chrome browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[506,707,528,3],"tags":[689,860,853,854,77,856,858,855,857,859],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","category-living-in-the-cloud-cloud-computing-concepts","category-security-tech","category-tech","tag-chrome-os","tag-chrome-os-ssl-search","tag-chromeos","tag-cr48","tag-google","tag-google-search","tag-google-ssl","tag-google-ssl-search","tag-ssl","tag-ssl-search"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/4634619615_a58c1af0de1.jpg?fit=500%2C264&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prOO4-kz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}