UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
jnlp://www.java.com/ga/applet/verify/JavaDetection_applet.jnlp

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. On Windows, install Oracle Java from here: http://www.java.com

2. Open Chrome

3. Enter this URL (below). Notice the custom protocol (JNLP). This protocol is registered during the Java installation.

  jnlp://www.java.com/ga/applet/verify/JavaDetection_applet.jnlp

This works correctly in Internet Explorer 11, Firefox 46.0.1

What is the expected behavior?
Java Web Start application should be launched. In this example, only a small window will be opened and presented on the upper left corner of the screen. You can close the app by clicking on the X. In the case of Chrome nothing happens because you are redirected to Google instead of starting the app.

What went wrong?
Chrome improperly interprets the URL as a search string and ignores the protocol "jnlp://" or "jnlps://".  Others are reporting the same with Skype and various other protocols, so this isn't a "Java" issue.  The following was closed as "Fixed", therefore this new issue was created.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=378576

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 50.0.2661.102  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0