How to: Chrome: allow localhost site even without https certificate

 So as we all are learning, chrome is blocking entirely https sites, even those from localhosts. Sometimes you a presented with a warning screen. Sometimes you are presented with a connect to network screen despite being fully connected to the internet.

For those of us with application specific programs that do not require a certificate, maybe a self hosted test website or whatever you need. Chrome does allow you to override the warning about https certificates if the address is localhost.

1 Steps total

Step 1: Open Google Chrome

Enter the below into the address bar in google chrome.

chrome://flags/#allow-insecure-localhost

Set the option to enabled on allow-insecure-localhost.

Now you can able to access the localhost