Oh, didn't know this was a widespread problem. Happened to me as well. The search results display for a fraction of a second then I get the blank screen.
Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
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Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#12Driving me crazy; just started happening tonight.
Found the only way to get it to stop was to quit the browser completely and restart or to open an icognito window.
I'm using Version 20.0.1132.47 beta.
Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#13Same problem here. Seems to happen when you're in a logged out state. Wonder how QA missed this. Maybe we can help out, go star this issue in the Chromium bug tracker in case it affects the FOSS edition as well. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84679&...
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#14Not sure if it's related, but as I write this, Google Drive is down for me; gives a "This app is currently unreachable" error.
Perhaps some piece of Google identity/auth infrastructure is down right now.
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#15Just started happening to me, thought it was some weird glitch with the Win8 preview. Good to know.
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#16From the giant thread, user BolshoiBrit:
Found a work around:
Add a new a search engine in wrench >> settings >> search "Manage Search Engines". Under "other search engines" add a new search engine using this address for the URL http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
Name it "Google 2" or whatever you want. Works like a charm.
-B
Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#17Hidden in that long chain are some folks suggesting that turning off instant search fixed the problem. Don't know if that's actually the problem, but it may help those of you experiencing the issue.
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#18It took me around 3 failures to just switch to duckduckgo.
Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#19Here's a permanent fix:
- Click on the wrench icon in the upper right. Click "Settings".
- Scroll down to "Set which search engine is used when searching from the omnibox."
- Click Manage search engines
- Scroll all the way down. You'll see three textboxes. Fill the three textboxes in like so:
Googol Googol http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
You now have a permanent way to search Google from within Chrome. Bonus: the URL is clean... there isn't any embedded tracking code or any other junk.
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#20Everything works fine in Chrome Canary (the nightly builds) but it's broken in the standard Chrome release for me.