Chrome is stuck at "establishing secure connection..." on all pages

While anything is possible I think the number of occurrences would be up significantly.

When did yours start?

Clearing history does little, just where you been.

Clearing temp files ( data (images) stored on machine from web pages) for more useful as is deleting cookies. Cookies are use for sites where people use "Keep me signed in" so you need to know passwords. Of course this assumes you are not saving passwords in Chrome which is different than saving cookies.

From Chrome's warning just before you reset

What is your antivirus and does it have SSL scanning enabled?

Cannot access secure websites since I installed Bitdefender

ESET and a few other AV's are known to have the same problem.

MrMii Win 10 said:

I gave those a try and Chrome seemed to work almost 100%. But after I restarted, it was back to "establishing secure connection..." again. I have not tried Firefox yet. If anyone could give some insight here, I would VERY much appreciate it. Edge isn't bad, but I'd like to continue using Chrome if possible.

Thanks,
Robert

I've actually also had this very annoying issue with google chrome for a long time,
coz im lazy i've just accepted the slow loading times and i guess i got use to it...
Well up untill a few days ago, i got fed up, normal sites i usually visit took over 1-3 min to load =S

So i did a couple of things to fix this issue.

1. Disabled TLS 1.3 in " chrome://flags "


2. Disabled Encrypt connections scanning in Kaspersky Antivirus @
settings > Additional > Network > Do not Scan encrypt connections


3. In Services > Cryptographic Services > Log On > Made sure that Log on as: Local system account is ticked and not This account.


4. In regedit > Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\Root\ProtectedRoots
I first backed up ProtectedRoots & Root to my desktop, after i took control of ProtectedRoots & deleted it, after that i deleted Root.

5. Restarted.
Once restarted, i checked my regedit again and Root is back with Certificates,CRLs,CTLs.
But ProtectedRoots is missing, no system issues even after it's gone.


After this i have not had any issues at all with establishing secure connection in google chrome,
everything loads instant now as it should.

Hope this helps someone

Strange...

Thanks for updating.

Jano said:

It helped me, thanks!!

Had my hands on the solution once, forgot the trick, but here it was :)

I only needed step 3. to fix my challenge, no reboot, no restart of chrome. It worked straight away.
100% the solution I needed.

Been battling this challenge for months on several machines with different profiles to no prevail.
Most of the suggestions in here and other places have been tried without success. So this solution is it.


Have now documented it, it seems to return for some reason.

Hey @Jano
Welcome to Tenforums :)

I'm glad my solution helped you out :)