Turned off Instant Search and everything works now (except for Instant Search which I can live with until they get it fixed).
Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
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Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#52Regarding 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 s…
Oh oops. Deleted the original, will need a fix for that too.
Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#53Same problem here. Switched to DuckDuckGo as the default search engine and now it works fine.
You know, i was just wondering if the bing team had noticed a spike in traffic as people switch their default searchers today? DDG as well, i guess. I'd love to see gabriel weinberg do a write-up about his stats for today :)
Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#54Regarding 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 s…
Thanks - can you recommend a workaround for the moment?
Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#55oh man, I have been experiencing this very issue for a few hours tonight and googling the issue led me to this thread. Good to know I was not the only one. The suggested fix seems to resolve the issue for me as well.
Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.goo…
If I search for something where I might expect a regionally-customised result, like "newspaper", I get "The Sun", "The New York Times" and "The Guardian" from encrypted.google.com, but I get the SMH, "The Australian", etc. etc. from a regular google.com.au search.
Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#57Crazy that this broke, but an interesting reminder of how annoying browsers were when you had to type "www.google.com" before you could search.
Well let's not forget that before this the norm was a search box that was placed next to the address bar. Just saying :p
Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#58Earlier 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…
To make it clear how large the scale of the problem is, and that it is not just affecting one person.
Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#59Regarding 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 s…
Thanks - can you recommend a workaround for the moment?
Create an alternate Google Search using something like https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s and leave the old one there. You can set the new one as default for the time being and revert to the original afterwards.
Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#60Regarding 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 s…
Oh oops. Deleted the original, will need a fix for that too.
From the Chromium issue: "You can recreate the default entry by deleting your "Web Data" file out of your profile and restarting. Note that this will completely reset all your search engines."