[adrianratnapala]

Disclaimer: I'm a Googler.

I find google.com is more broken on Chrome than in Firefox. In firefox, it just just annoying moves the search field as you start type. In chrome you are not allowed to use it at all. Instead it forces you to use the location bar.

Sometimes the location bar does a Google search. Sometimes it goes to the URL you type in. Sometimes, other things happen. Occasionally the thing that actually happens is the thing you wanted.

[blauditore]

This only seems to apply to Chrome's default start page which looks like google.com, but actually isn't. It seems to work similar as in FF when navigating to google.com first.

[adrianratnapala]

It happens when I navigate explicitly to google.com as well.

But I think I have seen other behaviours in the past, so it all probably the exact Chrome version etc.