I use both gmail.com (redirects to mail.google.com) and rmilk.com (redirects to rememberthemilk.com) all the time as shortcuts. Chrome “remembers” this and as soon as I type “gm” or “rm” it is auto-suggesting them and I just hit enter to get where I want to be.
I just switched back to Firefox (ublock origin forever!) and it massively down-rates URLs that redirect in its “what to auto-suggest” algorithm. You can tweak this, though, by putting `about: config` into the URL bar and setting `places.frecency.permRedirectVisitBonus` and `places.frecency.redirectSourceVisitBonus` to 2000 over their initial low values.
firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/urlbar/ranking.html has all the gory details and more.
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