[chromium-discuss] Is it possible to disable the "Did you mean to go to" check for non-standard TLDs?

[Erik]

My workplace has internal TLDs for our intranet sites. So, say I type
"foo.bar" into the omnibar, Instead of going to the website it first
does a google search for foo.bar and then asks me "Did you mean to go
to http://foo.bar/?". I don't have this problem with any other web
browser, in my opinion this is taking a step back. I don't see
anything in the options to change this behavior, am I missing
something or should I file a bug report?

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[Erik Johnson]

I don't WANT it to learn, though. I have dozens of hostnames and I don't want to have to click a button each time I navigate to it for the first time. Furthermore, I don't want my browser storing these URLs.

Adding a slash to the end of the internal URL is an OK compromise, I guess. But this is something that should be configurable. I can understand that overall this probably helps more people than it hurts, and I love that Chrom(e|ium) is forward-thinking like this. So sure, enable this by default. But I should be able to turn it off.

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Brian Rakowski <brak...@google.com> wrote:

Hi Erik,

Rather than add a pref for this, we've tried to make Chrome learn about these internal hostnames. If you click the "did you mean" suggestion, chrome will remember that it shouldn't do a search when you type that next time. Also, if you type a slash after the hostname (foobar/), it will navigate to that hostname rather than attempt a search first.

HTH,

Brian

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-Erik

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