I remember reading about Microsoft stopping supporting that option actually. The reasoning being that it could be used for sending users to malicious sites.

"malicious users can use this URL syntax together with other methods to create a link to a deceptive (spoofed) Web site that displays the URL to a legitimate Web site in the Status bar, Address bar, and Title bar of all versions of Internet Explorer."

I'm wondering if this was the reasoning for doing so in Chrome.