It may work like with a custom host file, but with better UX. If you add something like domain.dev to your hosts file and just write it onto your search bar wit

It may work like with a custom host file, but with better UX. If you add something like domain.dev to your hosts file and just write it onto your search bar without http:// http:// Chrome will do a search and while searching check if there's a DNS entry for that 'weird' domain, if there is it will show you a tooltip asking if you wanted to go to http://domain.dev http://domain.dev.