Q: Google Search not working from address bar in Safari

Just logging for the record that I am having this problem too.  A few observations:

1) it's affecting many but not all of my https:// sites.  All google (gmail, accounts, google.com), LinkedIn, Yahoo, Facebook, Wikipedia even are not displaying - generally all because 'Safari cannot establish a secure connection to the server'.  Oddly though, sites like https://www.twitter.com are working.

2) I loaded Chrome up as well and the same sites are affected/not affected.  I get the message No data received (ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE) in Chrome.

3) Prior to mucking around with some Network settings this morning, if I hit Command+R approx 10 times the secure pages would load correctly.  After removing the only extension installed, clearing caches and cookies, disabling DNS pre-fetching, etc, none of them now load at all.

I'm running Safari 9.0.1 on El Capitan, which came preinstalled on a brand new MBP 6 months ago (and was working fine until 1-2 months ago).  All of these sites display correctly through a high end HP Win 10 laptop running in parallel here so it is not the router/network config. Given multiple browsers on the same machine are having problems, it looks like something in the networking within OS X is the issue.

D'oh.  Will call Apple Support shortly...

I'm trying with the nightly build of WebKit (r195521), but the issue seems not solved.

Today I've read this news (http://www.redmondpie.com/apple-to-release-fix-for-safari-on-os-x-not-resolving- shortened-twitter-links/), maybe a tweet to Timothy Hatcher can be useful.

Well I'm having all of the slow down issues in Safari (currently using Firefox) and today my address bar went wierd.  No searches possible and addresses or seaches shown twice see attached.  I've no idea how to fix this

@marksmith I'm having that exact same issue since this morning..cleared caches, removed extensions, safe mode boot, etc..nothing helped.

Same here.

Latest OSX update (10.11.3) completely broke Safari.

I have exactly the same issue here. Working fine up to yesterday. Today I just upgraded to 10.11.3, and the problem with Safari started. Same symptoms and I tried everything (empty caches, disable all extensions, safe mode, etc.) Nothing works. Only difference in my setup is the El Capitan upgrade...

I hope I can get a fix really soon now, this is a major disruption for doing any serious work with Safari...

As a temporary fix, you can go to : Safari>Preferences>Search

And disable 'Include search engine suggestions'.

It's working for me.

Adding to this..this happened to me this morning, was fine yesterday evening..Webkit nightly build has the exact same problems! Safari on my other mac is fine, for now..Really unworkable..

Thanks, this seems to be doing the trick

MacBook Air 2013.

Suddenly I cannot use anymore Safari's address line. It doesn't accept any text or click.

I can navigate to Preference's sites, but not type any url in the address bar.

I have fixed this by uncheck ALL checked items in Preferences->Search

This worked perfectly.  Thanks!!

In addition to the problem of 'not being able to type into the address area', I found that Safari crashes completely if I try to go into full screen mode at this time.

Changing search engine to Yahoo resolves both issues but also, as 'honoramongstthieves' suggests above, I found that whilst retaining Google as my search engine, setting

Safari>Preferences>Search disable 'Include search engine suggestions'.

has fixed both problems for me.

The latest webkit update must have caused more issues with this problem as the thread today has become very active. While the temporary fix of disabling search features works for this element of the problem, it does nothing to resolve other issues such as https sites not loading, youtube video embeds not appearing.Those new to this thread might try using their google accounts to see if they are encountering the same issue and report back?

Apple need to address and resolve these issues very quickly as there are some of us who use our browsers intensively for work, and it has become a real issue.

Disabling "Include Safari Suggestions" not only fixed the issue, but enables - guess what - Safari Suggestions. So ticking it off, effectively turns it on!

Safari has completely got its knickers in a twist and enabling this feature causes the problem where the search just stops working. I'm using Google and also disabled preload (just a personal preference).

I'll dig into some searchs to see if I can find where these settings are stored in the system.