If you try to enter a DNS address that isn't a public website, say, myinternalhomepage.lan
, the first response from the average web browser like Chrome or Firefox will be to treat them as plaintext to be sent to a search engine, rather than connect to them as if they were a web address. But with public addresses it works fine, I can just enter google.com
and get Google.
I understand that it's possible to force these to be directly connected to instead of searched by prefixing them with http://
or https://
, but this is fairly annoying.
Is there a configuration setting, either in the browser, or in the operating system, to treat certain URLs as connectable by default, so that manually entering the protocol prefix isn't necessary?