title: How do I go to localhost in Chrome?
body: <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> This issue is no longer reproducible with Chrome 70.x.</p>
  
  <p>When I type <code>localhost</code> into used-to-be-an-address-bar in Chrome and hit Enter, Chrome takes me to google.com to search for "localhost".</p>
  
  <p>If I don't hit Enter, a drop-down drops down with options like:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Search for localhost</li>
  <li>Go to localhost/some/path that I have previously visited</li>
  <li>Go to otherRecentLocation.someDomain/blah?thing=localhost&amp;so=on</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>(Hitting Enter of course selects the first of those options.)</p>
  
  <p>Notice that going to <code>localhost</code> is not an option at all. While the other options are nice, one would expect the ability to go to a valid location like <code>localhost</code>, and moreover that it be the default--i.e. typing <code>localhost</code> and hitting <code>Enter</code> should take you to, literally, <code>http://localhost:80</code>. I was able to go to <code>localhost</code> a few days before posting this originally (3 days ago). Was this changed as a security feature?</p>
  
  <p>My intent is to test that the web application I am developing is correctly configured to respond with the right payload, e.g. index.html.</p>
  
  <p>Specs:
   - Chrome Version 69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)
   - Ubuntu 16.04
   - running an application at <a href="https://localhost" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://localhost</a>, which I can access with workarounds.</p>
  
  <p>Let me know if I should post this question in a different StackExchange site.</p>