I started using chrome on the RHEL7 beta after some firefox hangs - but maybe this behavior is generic. I have the system 'network settings/network proxy' set to use squid on another host for connections out of the private range we use. This proxy requires authentication so I can always tell the first time a browser uses it. However, I can start a chrome connection to gmail and it just goes direct (which happens to work, I just prefer the proxy which will use a different outbound route). If I go to any non-google site, it uses the proxy and will pop up the expected authentication dialog on the first connection. Does anyone know (a) why it bypasses the proxy when going to a google site, (b) why it doesn't have its own internal proxy settings, or (c) how to fix it?