It seems to work when pasting into a terminal. Haven't tried other apps, yet.
And yes, that's a big problem. I don't want to double-check my urls when pasting them into various messengers, skype or whatever. Here's a tip google: If you can't implement it 200% reliable then don't f-ck with something as essential as URL copy/paste. People will not be amused at all.
example.com/foo (http://example.com/foo)
PS: Sorry, I accidentally downvoted you.
code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list?q=label:HTTPStripping
and file a new one if not.
EDIT: I am intentionally not including the "http:// since:
* after looking at it in the omnibox, I decide I like it better this way indeed, and 6 less keystrokes. The others will have to copypaste or the webapp writers will have to figure a way to highlight it :-)
* the copypaste is not working in the linux case either, but that's one of the logged bugs.
It's really the first point that I am trying to say is the biggest impact that this change will have. "If it works in Chrome, it has to work everywhere".
And I am intentionally not clicking the link because ... it's not a link. I have a greasemonkey script that automatically turns plain text URLs into clickable links. But the text in your post is not a URL. It's a domain and a path, but with no scheme it is not a URL.