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. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug