Getting Chrome to accept self-signed localhost certificate

Question

I have created a self-signed SSL certificate for the localhost CN. Firefox accepts this certificate after initially complaining about it, as expected. Chrome and IE, however

Answer 1

For a test environment

You can use --ignore-certificate-errors as a command line parameter when launching chrome (Working on Version 28.0.1500.52 on Ubuntu).

This will cause it to ignore the errors and connect without warning. If you already have a version of chrome running, you will need to close this before relaunching from the command line or it will open a new window but ignore the parameters.

I configure Intellij to launch chrome this way when doing debugging, as the test servers never have valid certificates.

I wouldn't recommend normal browsing like this though, as certificate checks are an important security feature, but this may be helpful to some.