Force Chrome to open URLs as URLs, instead of searching
Problem
I have a local Apache server running, which is defined through as "apache". So I often open pages like: Normally, this works fine. However, since I am using a more recent Chrome browser, at odd moments the browser decides that the URL I type is not a URL but actually a search, so it loads my default search engine and tries to find this URL. It often, but not always, shows a link under the address bar that says . That is nice, but very annoying having to click here instead of going there directly. What makes Chrome behave this way? Can I fix this?
Error Output
http://apache/website/
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Fix for: Force Chrome to open URLs as URLs, instead of searching
I had the same problem and i found that typing the / at the end will always treat it as a url instead of keyword. For example in my case : but
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