For web development on localhost I'm using domains with .loc extension at the end of a domain name.
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)
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 http://rose.loc - it throws me onto a google search page each time I would type in rose.loc (without http://) in the beginning..
Have you experienced this in a similar way ? Is there some solution to that ?
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..)