Go in Settings, Show Advanced Settings and uncheck the following three options: (X) Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors (X) Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar (X) Use a prediction service to load pages more quickly Open chrome://net-internals/#dns and click the Clear Hosts Cache button. I've tried all the solutions I could find online including: Both IE11 and Firefox are installed on the same machine and work as expected. Google Chrome Ignoring Hosts File - google-chrome Google Chrome is ignoring the settings in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts file.