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		imaginenore on Jan 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “What happens when you type Google.com into your b... The first part is already outdated. A lot depends on the browser. Chrome will look up stuff as you type it, and by the time you press <enter>, the DNS lookup will likely have happened already. And, likely, the actual request to the page. It's probably even more complicated than that, I believe "google.com" is a very special case in Chrome.

jedberg on Jan 16, 2015 [–]

You should submit a pull request to fix it then. :)

presty on Jan 17, 2015 | [–]

and ideally with links to the exact lines of code (chromium) that do each thing ;)

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