The chrome://* address are not being added to the history DB, and as such the...

chrome/browser/history/history.cc

 // Copyright (c) 2006-2008 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 // The history system runs on a background thread so that potentially slow
 // database operations don't delay the browser. This backend processing is
 // represented by HistoryBackend. The HistoryService's job is to dispatch to
 // that thread.
 //
 // Main thread                       History thread
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 void HistoryService::ScheduleTask(SchedulePriority priority,
                                   Task* task) {
   // FIXME(brettw) do prioritization.
   thread_->message_loop()->PostTask(FROM_HERE, task);
 }
 
 bool HistoryService::CanAddURL(const GURL& url) const {
   if (!url.is_valid())
     return false;
 
+  // We allow chrome://* URLs so that they will be added to history and
+  // autocomplete suggestions.
   if (url.SchemeIs(chrome::kJavaScriptScheme) ||
-      url.SchemeIs(chrome::kChromeUIScheme) ||
       url.SchemeIs(chrome::kViewSourceScheme) ||
       url.SchemeIs(chrome::kChromeInternalScheme) ||
       url.SchemeIs(chrome::kPrintScheme))
     return false;
 
   if (url.SchemeIs(chrome::kAboutScheme)) {
-    std::string path = url.path();
-    if (path.empty() || LowerCaseEqualsASCII(path, "blank"))
+    if (LowerCaseEqualsASCII(url.path(), "blank"))
       return false;
     // We allow all other about URLs since the user may like to see things
     // like "about:memory" or "about:histograms" in their history and
     // autocomplete.
   }
 
   return true;
 }
 
 void HistoryService::SetInMemoryBackend(
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   NotificationService::current()->Notify(type, source, det);
 }
 
 void HistoryService::OnDBLoaded() {
   LOG(INFO) << "History backend finished loading";
   backend_loaded_ = true;
   NotificationService::current()->Notify(NotificationType::HISTORY_LOADED,
                                          Source<Profile>(profile_),
                                          Details<HistoryService>(this));
 }