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Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by sanli »

dfc wrote: post #36
JoshTriplett wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because the bug-tracking system doesn't have a noise-free way to say "this affects me too", the way that bugzilla and launchpad do. And "this affects me too" can potentially provide useful information, to gauge how many people an issue affects and thus what priority to give it.

Your answer explained why it is helpful to google. It does not explain why individuals post "me too," or why people are posting "me too" here on the HN page... There is a similar behavior here on HN with nice- page / I-agree / congrats posts. I'm wary of a general guideline that I should only post to HN if I think the karma reward will be greater than X, but more often than not I think it helps make sure any of my po…

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Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by pkasting »

Regarding all the suggestions to change search engines:

Deleting the Google search entry is not an action that can easily be undone, and it will have drastic consequences, such as permanently disabling suggestions and instant for omnibox searches. Creating an alternate entry with the same URL does NOT suffice -- you can't manually enable any of this functionality on the alternate entry.

If you're having this bug, I suggest NOT doing this. Either sit tight until we fix, or if you do create a different entry, KEEP THE ORIGINAL so you can switch back once the fix is out.

--Peter Kasting, Chrome team member and owner of the Omnibox

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by saturn »

bigiain wrote: post #40
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…

If you're going to go to that much trouble anyway, may I suggest using: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s A little bit more privacy, a little bit less trackable (And, for this crowd, I should point out it'll strip the search query from the referrer when you click the search links in the ssl version of Google's SERPs - so the Google Analytics (or any other analytics tools) won't have those inbound search query…

Unfortunately seems to be US-only:

> The server at encrypted.google.com.au can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed

thanks for the tip though, still going to go with this.

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by bigiain »

saturn wrote: post #45
bigiain wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're going to go to that much trouble anyway, may I suggest using: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s A little bit more privacy, a little bit less trackable (And, for this crowd, I should point out it'll strip the search query from the referrer when you click the search links in the ssl version of Google's SERPs - so the Google Analytics (or any other analytics tools) won't have those inbound search query…

Unfortunately seems to be US-only: > The server at encrypted.google.com.au can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed thanks for the tip though, still going to go with this.

Well, more "dot com domain only" than "US-only".

The dns magic underneath encrypted.google.com, www.google.com and www.google.com.au shows that doesn't matter - all three are "in Australia" (at the very least, within 21ms) from where I am (Sydney):

  [Bigs-MacBook-Pro:~] bigiain% traceroute www.google.com.au
  traceroute: Warning: www.google.com.au has multiple addresses; using 74.125.237.87
  traceroute to www-cctld.l.google.com (74.125.237.87), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
  1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  3.558 ms  1.766 ms  1.582 ms
  …
  8  syd01s06-in-f23.1e100.net (74.125.237.87)  20.318 ms  20.009 ms  20.457 ms
  
  [Bigs-MacBook-Pro:~] bigiain% traceroute www.google.com
  traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.237.81
  traceroute to www.l.google.com (74.125.237.81), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
  1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  1.962 ms  3.753 ms  1.618 ms
  …
  9  syd01s06-in-f17.1e100.net (74.125.237.81)  19.927 ms  20.220 ms  20.404 ms
  
  [Bigs-MacBook-Pro:~] bigiain% traceroute encrypted.google.com
  traceroute: Warning: encrypted.google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.237.100
  traceroute to www3.l.google.com (74.125.237.100), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
  1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  17.068 ms  8.808 ms  1.609 ms
  …
  8  syd01s12-in-f4.1e100.net (74.125.237.100)  21.235 ms  20.064 ms  19.237 ms

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by javajosh »

lambda wrote: post #31

Why do dozens of people feel the need to say "+1" and "me too"? What could they possibly think they are adding to the discussion?

That rather surprises me as well. I thought there'd be more analysis of what was happening - I looked in WebKit Inspector and noted some odd things. Something about a "hidden socket" in chrome.
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