People seem to be under the impression that Chrome has a location bar. It doesn't. It only has a search box with a "smart" I'm Feeling Lucky feature. If it detects that your query matches a url, it will re-write your query to the normalized url it matched and show you the corresponding page. Otherwise, it shows you all search results as you would expect of a search box.<p>To use the url-mapping feature, you need to start your search with either a top-level domain name or a protocol specifier, or end it with a "/". If you just type a hostname on your LAN, it won't try to visit that location, because it's not a location bar. It'll search, and fail to trigger the Lucky feature because a single word isn't specific enough to be detected as a url.<p>Though, it seems if you put a "/" at the end, then next time you type the word, it matches against the history and gets it right.<p>Anyway, it's too smart for me. I have trouble figuring it out sometimes.
The issue has been closed by Google, they no longer accept new comment from now.<p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=41467" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=41467</a>
I wish they would at least make it optional, e.g. turn-off-able in the browser's settings. Yes, more functionality to maintain. But this would provide the option of continuing consistency with other browser UI's and with existing workflows.<p>Remember, Google? "Opt-in". Or in this case, at least "opt-out-able".