If this was intentional, it's not a big deal. You can reject this patch.
My use-package based workaround is quite simple (in case any one else ends up here while searching):
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 1:54 PM Eli Zaretskii <
eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 11:59:27 -0400
> Cc: 31828@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Then looking up in lisp/net/browse-url.el, I saw that all browse-url-* functions had an autoload except for
> browse-url-chrome.
No, not all of them.
> So it looked like a clear oversight. Is that correct?
I don't think it's an oversight. Chrome is proprietary software.
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