Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search • Hacker News Board

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

#21

Post by rel » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 4:47 AM UTC

Dev build does not seem to be having this issue

(21.0.1180.15 dev-m)

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

#22

Post by kevinsd » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 4:51 AM UTC

Closing and restarting chrome seem to fix the problem for me.

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

#23

Post by TheDigitalNInja » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 4:52 AM UTC

frustrating as hell, just giving bing a try for the night until they get it fixed.

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

#24

Post by v33ra » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 4:52 AM UTC

Same problem here. Switched to DuckDuckGo as the default search engine and now it works fine.

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

#25

Post by sses » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 4:53 AM UTC

chaffneue wrote: post #13

Same 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&#38...

That's a different bug. The problem people are seeing today is a redirect to google.com/blank.html which is of course a blank page.

Edit: ah I see reports further down that bug mention blank.html

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

#26

Post by chrismealy » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 4:54 AM UTC

Me too.

I've been getting a lot of redirect timeouts on google searches the last couple of months. Their link tracking is flaky. Irritating as hell.

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

#27

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 5:00 AM UTC

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Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

#28

Post by dennisgorelik » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 5:03 AM UTC

sillysaurus wrote: post #19

Here'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 - Press enter, so that it adds Googol to your list of search engines. Scroll…

Sweet! I got my clean search URL.

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

#29

Post by emeraldd » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 5:03 AM UTC

kevinsd wrote: post #22

Closing and restarting chrome seem to fix the problem for me.

I ran into this a short while ago and restart seems to have fixed it for me as well. Odd

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

#30

Post by glennos » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 5:04 AM UTC

Crazy that this broke, but an interesting reminder of how annoying browsers were when you had to type "www.google.com" before you could search.