Chrome "Active content with certificate errors"
Solution 1
To clear this error without a restart:
- Open developer tools
- Goto the Application tab
- Clear storage
- Close and re-open tab
Commenters have pointed out the following:
- you must close all tabs in all windows which are open to the same domain
- you can uncheck "cookies" before clearing storage to preserve login information etc
Solution 2
Restarting the browser gets rid of the "Active content with certificate errors".
Some people rarely restart their browsers though, would be good to know how to resolve this without a restart.
Update: A newer answer explains how to do this without a restart > https://stackoverflow.com/a/46390363/292408
Solution 3
This may be equivalent to the other methods but I found it while trying to avoid restarting my browser.
- Click on the "Not secure" left of the URL.
- Click the number under Cookies (since they are almost always set) eg 4 in use.
- Click on each URL and click Remove.
- Close the tab and reopen and the warnings should have gone away and it show "Secure".
Elijah Lynn
Current: DevOps & Software Engineer at Agile Six Applications (for www.va.gov). Mostly Drupal (PHP, MySQL, JavaScript) and DevOps (Ansible, Terraform & AWS).
Updated on July 05, 2022Comments
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Elijah Lynn almost 2 years
We recently updated our ZNC server (don't think this matters) with a new certificate to include a Subject Alternative Name (SAN) DNS field. It works now in incognito but my existing session shows the error "This page is not secure (broken HTTPS)." with the below details:
Active content with certificate errors
You have recently allowed content loaded with certificate errors (such as scripts or iframes) to run on this site.
I am searched but am not finding anything related to more detail on this. It sounds like it will just expire on its own since it states "recently" but I am more concerned about how to get this to resolve quickly and hopefully without users having to do anything.
I have disabled extensions that were showing up in the network requests and am left with just a few requests now, all of which are HTTPS. I also tried a ctrl + shift + r to reload w/bypass cache, as well as dev tools 'disable cache' selected when reloading.
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deed02392 almost 7 yearsThe error went away for me without restarting my browser. This error occurred after I added the CA that signed some internal web management server that I'd previously continued through the certificate error of.
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Elijah Lynn over 6 yearsThanks for this, I can't personally confirm this works but based on @Yitz's comment and the 4 upvotes so far I will accept this answer.
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Elijah Lynn over 6 yearsThis also works for a broken certificate chain not showing after you fixed it on the server, a colleague just posted a link to this answer for this issue!
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Ferdinand.kraft over 6 yearsYou can uncheck "cookies" before clearing storage, if you want to preserve login information.
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raarts over 5 yearsUnfortunately neither this answer, nor the answers below explain why this fixes the problem.
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Colin 't Hart about 4 yearsRestarting the browser was the only way that fixed this for me.
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Nick K9 about 4 yearsImportant caveat: you must close ALL TABS which are open to the site. Just the current one won't cut it.
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Admin about 4 yearsThe link you've provided links to this question.
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Elijah Lynn about 4 yearsIt does, and it also links to the newer answer and should highlight it after clicking. I can't say "above" or "below" as the user sort may not be the same as mine.