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Q: Google Search not working from address bar in Safari

Hi,

 

Since I updated to El Capitan I am no longer able to run Google search from the URL bar on Safari. Bing and the others work fine.

 

Notice that when I type "google analytics for apps" the following URL is generated:

 

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=google+analytics+for+apps&i e=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

 

But nothing happens, the loading does not proceed. In Networks -> DNS I have not manually added any DNS Servers and Search Domains but some defaults are added (128. etc.).

 

Can anyone help me? Thanks.

Safari 9.0, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 7, 2015 11:18 AM

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  • by Flo H.,

    Flo H. Flo H. Jan 27, 2016 3:39 AM in response to Voisey
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    Jan 27, 2016 3:39 AM in response to Voisey

    That is strange! Your hint helped me! So it IS a real bug of the new Safari!

  • by Voisey,

    Voisey Voisey Jan 27, 2016 3:40 AM in response to Flo H.
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    Jan 27, 2016 3:40 AM in response to Flo H.

    Yes, posting it to the apple / safari bug tracker now describing my experience and linking to this thread.

  • by pb100,

    pb100 pb100 Jan 27, 2016 3:50 AM in response to p3anutau
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    Jan 27, 2016 3:50 AM in response to p3anutau

    Worked for me too! Thanks! This occurred after OS upgrade too. Was driving me crazy. What does this actually do?

  • by iPitch,

    iPitch iPitch Jan 27, 2016 3:55 AM in response to Voisey
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    Jan 27, 2016 3:55 AM in response to Voisey

    I am getting the same problems after upgrading to Yosemite 10.11.3 yesterday. Unable to type into the address bar, crashing in full screen mode, Google searches not working. Fortunately the fix of going into Safari Preferences and setting Safari>Preferences>Search disable 'Include search engine suggestions' worked for me too. Thanks

     

    This is obviously a bug in the last upgrade. Lets hope Apple sort it out really soon.

  • by thomasfromclover,

    thomasfromclover thomasfromclover Jan 27, 2016 4:26 AM in response to MarkSmith
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    Jan 27, 2016 4:26 AM in response to MarkSmith

    Yes, this is exactly what just happened to me today. It was fine until this morning. Running the latest versions of both Safari and OSX

  • by Voisey,

    Voisey Voisey Jan 27, 2016 4:46 AM in response to marcogreselin
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    Jan 27, 2016 4:46 AM in response to marcogreselin

    This is now a global issue it seems, affecting version of safari on iOS as well.

  • by ChrisAnne5,

    ChrisAnne5 ChrisAnne5 Jan 27, 2016 4:49 AM in response to honoramongstthieves
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    Jan 27, 2016 4:49 AM in response to honoramongstthieves

    Thank you so much as I have wrestled with this of ruth last 2 hours and had to use Chrome to even access any help. Some fixes suggested were beyond my technical competence and understanding but this simple fix has done the job-phew! Now I can get on with some work. Thanks again for sharing.

  • by thomasfromclover,

    thomasfromclover thomasfromclover Jan 27, 2016 5:07 AM in response to Voisey
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    Jan 27, 2016 5:07 AM in response to Voisey

    I'M not having this problem on iPhone 6 s Plus or iPad air 2 running 9.2.1

     

    Tom

  • by pb100,

    pb100 pb100 Jan 27, 2016 2:18 PM in response to fabio56
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    Jan 27, 2016 2:18 PM in response to fabio56

    I attempted most of the suggestions from most earlier posts. None worked. I then tried one that disabled DNS prefetching. Suddenly everything started behaving normally again!

     

    The link below shows how to toggle DNS prefetching.

     

    https://software.com/mac/tweaks/toggle-dns-prefetching-in-safari


    To change prefetching:

    1. Start a new Terminal session (in Finder click Applications > Utilities > Terminal).
    2. To disable this setting, type (or copy and paste) the following command:
    3. defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitDNSPrefetchingEnabled -boolean false
    4. To reset this setting to the default value, type (or copy and paste) the following command:  
    5. defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitDNSPrefetchingEnabled -boolean true
    6. To activate this tweak please close all instances of Safari, or wait until the next reboot.
    7. Close the Terminal session by typing exit at the prompt.

    This morning I changed it back to the default (prefetching enabled) and it has continued work OK.

  • by Fausto R,

    Fausto R Fausto R Jan 28, 2016 4:51 AM in response to marcogreselin
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    Jan 28, 2016 4:51 AM in response to marcogreselin

    This post is related to the original question of this thread, not to the issue of the Safari Suggestions occurred since yesterday.

     

    This is not a solution, I think that only Apple can solve this issue, but it's a workaround to solve this kind of scenario (that make me mad):

    1) Type a query into the Safari omnibar

    2) Wait that the Google's page has been loaded

    3) ...

    4) Nothing happen...

    5) Close Safari

    6) Re-open Safari and re-type the query again.

     

     

    STEPS:

    1) Download the extension: AnySearch (download | source code)

    2) Go to: Safari > Preferences > Extensions.

    3) Enable AnySearch, choose "Custom" as search engine and enter this url in the below field: http://www.google.it/search?nord=1&client=safari&q=@@@

    4) Replace "google.it" with your preferred Google domain (google.com, google.fr, etc...)

     

    Note the http instead of the https used from Safari and the parameter nord=1 that disable the redirect from http to https

     

    This workaround doesn't solve the issue with youtube and other https sites.

    There are many other extensions that can do that, but I think that this is the most lightweight. If you prefer an extension available on the Safari Extensions Gallery, you can try with "Omnikey".

  • by _devros,

    _devros _devros Jan 28, 2016 8:02 AM in response to Fausto R
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    Jan 28, 2016 8:02 AM in response to Fausto R

    Indeed, this thread has been somewhat taken off track - the issue with Google searches in the address bar stalling and failed attempts to navigate directly to google.co.uk (and other country specific variants) still persists...

     

    SPD.

  • by observer_144,

    observer_144 observer_144 Jan 28, 2016 4:57 PM in response to marcogreselin
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    Jan 28, 2016 4:57 PM in response to marcogreselin

    I think I figured out another potential cause for the Search slowdowns and why it is not impacting other browsers like Chrome. It might work hand-in-hand with the DNS issue mentioned earlier in the thread too.

     

    In Safari, it can search not just Google, but it can add other common web sites to its search. I think these other sites were causing the slow down.

     

    Open Safari -> Preferences. Move to the Search tab. Disable "Enable Quick Website Search" (or perhaps reduce the number of sites listed to just the ones you want).

     

    My list had discussions.apple.com, youtube.com, facebook.com, theregister.com, and two dozen other sites (none of which I had added manually). I think this is what Safari is doing when you search, and why individual sites open quickly.

     

    So when it looks like Google is not responding, I think it is Safari that is launching searches on all the other sites at the same time.

     

    Just a guess. I disabled that "feature" and the Google search bar seems to be working faster now.

  • by Fausto R,

    Fausto R Fausto R Jan 29, 2016 3:12 AM in response to marcogreselin
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    Jan 29, 2016 3:12 AM in response to marcogreselin

    I've sent a tweet to Timothy Hatcher, a WebKit Developer Experience Manager at Apple, linking this thread: https://twitter.com/DoubleREW/status/693028144698257408

  • by nicken,

    nicken nicken Feb 10, 2016 9:59 AM in response to marcogreselin
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    Feb 10, 2016 9:59 AM in response to marcogreselin
  • by lipids,

    lipids lipids Feb 10, 2016 4:04 PM in response to nicken
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    Feb 10, 2016 4:04 PM in response to nicken

    No.

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