Deleting Root CA Certificates from Google Chrome

This section provides a tutorial example on how to delete a certificate from Google Chrome. Deleted certificate can be re-installed back from a certificate file.

As you can see from the previous tutorial, the list of trusted root CA certificates in Chrome is quite long. It contains many root CA certificates you are probably never going to use them. If you want to, you can delete root CA certificates that are not needed from Google Chrome.

Here is what I did on Google Chrome to delete the "VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5" certificate, which is actually needed to validate the login.yahoo.com certificate. But I can delete it, because I have exported it to a file already.

1. Click "Start > All programs > Google Chrome".

2. Right-mouse click "Google Chrome", then select "Run as administrator" to start Chrome. Running Chrome as administrator gives you the permission to remove root certificate.

3. Go to the "Settings" after click the menu icon on top right corner. You see the settings page showing up.

4. Click the "Show advanced settings..." link at the bottom.

5. Click the "Manage certificates..." button in the HTTPS/SSL section. You see Certificates manager showing up.

6. Go to the "Trusted Root Certificate Authorities" tab and select "VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5".

7. Click the "Remove" button, A warning message box shows up:

Delete Root Certificate - Google Chrome
Deleting Root Certificate in Google Chrome

8. Read the warning message and click "OK":

Deleting system root certificate might prevent some Windows components
from working properly. ... If Update Root Certificates is installed,
any deleted third-party root certificates will be restored
automatically, but the system root certificates will not. Do you want
to delete the selected certificate(s)?

9. Close Google Chrome.

The "VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5" certificate is deleted from Google Chrome now.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

 Introduction of HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)

Using HTTPS with Google Chrome

 Visiting "https" Website with Google Chrome

 Viewing Server Certificate in Google Chrome

 Viewing Server Certificate Path in Google Chrome

 Exporting Server Certificate to File in Google Chrome

 Viewing Trusted Root CA Certificates in Google Chrome

 Listing of Trusted Root CA in Google Chrome

 Exporting Root Certificate to File from Google Chrome

Deleting Root CA Certificates from Google Chrome

 Google Chrome Shares Windows PKI with IE

 Using HTTPS with Mozilla Firefox

 HTTPS with Microsoft Edge

 Using HTTPS with Apple Safari

 HTTPS with IE (Internet Explorer)

 Android and Server Certificate

 iPhone and Server Certificate

 Windows Certificate Stores and Console

 RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) and Server Certificate

 macOS Certificate Stores and Keychain Access

 Perl Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 PHP Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 Java Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 .NET Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 CAcert.org - Root CA Offering Free Certificates

 PKI CA Administration - Issuing Certificates

 Comodo Free Personal Certificate

 Digital Signature - Microsoft Word

 Digital Signature - OpenOffice.org 3

 S/MIME and Email Security

 PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) Terminology

 Archived Tutorials

 References

 Full Version in PDF/EPUB