Check if your behaviour matches one of these:

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".