Google Search not working from address bar in Safari

I am not yet using El Capitano, I have just reinstalled Yosemite and do have exactly the same problem with Safari (Version 9.0.2 (10601.3.9)).

No search in the address bar possible at all. 😠 I am so so sad that it is getting worse with Apple every day. 😢

I had the same problem with Yosemite and I have it now after I updated to El Captain. It actually is not working also on Google chrome with the same frequency as in Safari that's why I suspect it may be more of a wifi problem in OSX.

I am not using wifi, on my Mac Pro, at all. 😉

I am hard lined in and it makes no difference in the disorder. I think the problem goes beyond wifi.

El Capitan is the first OS version that I regret installing. I have a year-old Macbook Pro, so the computer is not the issue, but everything about El Capitan is slower, especially Safari. Chrome and Firefox are not slower at all. I can't believe that Apple has yet to fix the many, many issues with this abysmal operating system. Search is slow. Page loading is slow. In desperation I regularly have tried shutting down the browser window and restarting but nothing works. Not even rebooting the computer. I hate El Capitan, and shame on Apple for letting this linger so long.

I´m having the same problem. Restarting Safari will make it work again but it constantly stops working. Frustrating.

Same problem here.

OS X 10.11.2

Safari 9.0.2

google.it

Same issue here with OS X, all iOS devices works fine on the same wifi

OS X 10.11.2

Safari 9.0.2

google.cz

wifi connection

And same here:

* I need to type return twice to launch a search from the address bar

* Most Google services won't load, or will take a lot of time to load

Note this problem only exist in Safari; no problem with Chrome, for instance.

MBP 13", OS X 10.11.2, Safari 9.0.2

Same here.

Other search engines in Safari work, Google does not most of the time. Every now and then it works all of the sudden as expected however.

Same problem here.

OS X 10.11.2

Safari 9.0.2

This exact same thing happens to me all the time. Quitting Safari fully seemed to help, however not for long. I have found that disabling DNS prefetching makes a big difference too. Quit Safari first then try the below command in terminal:

defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitDNSPrefetchingEnabled -boolean false

Haven't had the issue since.

So far, that seems to do the trick! Thanks a bunch!

Today I've tried your suggestion and it seems to work! Thanks!

I tried this but it didn't work for me