title: Chrome browser doesn't like *.loc domain without http://?
body: <p>For web development on localhost I'm using domains with .loc extension at the end of a domain name. </p>
  
  <p>For example: if I work on a site roses.com, the local development domain would be roses.loc
  (defined in hosts file and IIS as a host-header in binding)</p>
  
  <p>My preferred browser (the main browser I use for development is Chrome) but unfortunately 
  it does not recognize a domain name with .loc extension as <a href="http://rose.loc">http://rose.loc</a> - it throws me onto a google search page each time I would type in rose.loc (without http://) in the beginning..</p>
  
  <p>Have you experienced this in a similar way ? Is there some solution to that ?</p>
  
  <p>Because during intensive development testing with clearing browser cache and restarting the browser for various reasons, it's getting pretty annoying to be thrown at a google search page instead of the development page where I expect to notice some changes, each time I forget to type in http:// before the url (and Chrome is the one who hides it by default, anyway..)</p>