Hi essexboy,
You might have a point there. I think it is because the browser became more and more popular. Google Chrome wants too much too soon and within a short time. Marketing dictates and security may give out at a certain moment.
Lately I saw someone could circumvent my google + account security and I had to block some strange entity that wanted to be added to my acquaintances.
It is dangerous to use Password Managers now inside Google Chrome and that one user model for all Google services is certainly making the attack surface of the client larger and larger. Their bringing in "https-only" will also benefit malcreants' encryption and circumvention (for malvertisers and other cybercriminals), while not every https website is up to those security standards yet to securily run inside Google Chrome.
Besides the normal user with a simple only txt info website format will become an endangered species and implementation of SSL and certification could be a costly exercise for non-commercial websites, so we will finally land there where they were aiming at that is at a situation where we can only welcome big(ger) commercial websites and we might lose the Interwebs for everyone and all else (bloggers, alternative info sites, etc. etc.). When my prediction will come through, do not say in the aftermath that I did not warn in advance for what is about to materialize....
or all will adopt a more secure HTTPS protocol. Then there is still a lot of work to be done. We will see where it leads.
Here the situation on SSL as it presents itself to-day from SSL-Pulse:
https://www.trustworthyinternet.org/ssl-pulse/Over 114.000 site with inadequate security. Only 22.1% was found to be secure!
polonus