When setting up Subversion recently to use with my various JDeveloper and NetBeans installations here, there and everywhere, I wanted to browse my repositories from Chrome (my main day to day browser) on Mac OS X (my main day to day OS).  But, my Subversion installation is using HTTPS with a self-signed certificate, so I had to tell Chrome how to understand it.

The process is as follows:

• Open the offending site in Chrome
• Click on little bang icon at the right hand end of the address bar
• Hold down the Option key and drag the certificate from the popup dialog to the desktop
• Rename it with a .cer extension
• In the Chrome menu, navigate to Preferences, Under the Hood, Security, Manage Certificates
• Click on the plus “+” icon to add a certificate
• Point to the .cer file on the desktop
• Select the option to trust the certificate

That’s it, all done!