Different treatment of strings typed into omnibar on mac and linux

[Gary Miguel]

On Linux, typing in a string like "foo/bar" takes me to http://foo/bar. On Mac, it searches the web for "foo/bar". Is there some way I can set my preference for this?

I guess I want anything with a slash in it to be considered as a URL. Thanks for any help.

[Pavel Ivanov]

> On Linux, typing in a string like "foo/bar" takes me to http://foo/bar. On
> Mac, it searches the web for "foo/bar". Is there some way I can set my
> preference for this?

I believe Chrome distinguishes these two cases using response from
DNS. When DNS server configured on Linux recognizes name "foo" Chrome
will take you to a website. When DNS server on Mac says that "foo" is
an unknown name then Chrome considers it a search.

Do you have the same network configuration on both hosts? Does "ping
foo" work on Mac?


Pavel

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[Gary Miguel]

Yes, ping works for these "foo" URL's on my mac.

[Pavel Ivanov]

In this case I thought Chrome will at least show an info-bar asking
you if you really meant http://foo/bar instead of searching
"foo/bar"...

[Gary Miguel]

Sometimes that works, but for some reason right now it is not.

I changed my default search engine to "http://%s", which certainly fixed it.