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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-OTHER, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 7, 2015 11:18 AM

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Jan 16, 2016 5:36 AM in response to marcogreselin

Same issue also. Very happy I found this thread because I have been experience this for weeks and it is driving me crazy. The only thing that seems to help is to quit Safari and re-open it. It then works for a short period of time before starting to not work. I have also noticed issues with getting to certain URLs, youtube often does not load and even other random sites.


Brand new Macbook 12"

OS X 10.11.2

Safari 9.0.2

Jan 19, 2016 8:01 AM in response to swalter6

Adding my voice to the complaints, plus some remarks :

- Retina MBP mid-2012

- On 10.11.2 although the same problem occurred on Yosemite. However I fixed it. I just can't remember how, and I lost my configuration files when I foolishly clean wiped my hard drive.

- I'm also quite confident that this is (at least partly) a router issue. The router lent by my previous ISP worked flawlessly with Safari/Google search. The issue started with this new crappy router (Dlink DIR-825). My friend had the same router with the same problem, and buying an Airport express did solve the problem for him.

- And just like every one here I did fiddle with most of the configuration parameters : from disabling ipv6, changing dns servers, disabling prefetching, changing router-side configuration, etc. all of them to no avail. Console hasn't shown anything of value (I have been tracking `Safari' and `DNS'). The problem only occurs on Google owned domains, no problem with Yahoo / Duckduckgo / Bing (but all of them are crappy compared to google 😮).

- Finally although it works fine with Chrome on Mac OS, Safari on my iphone5 also works well with the same wifi, so maybe webkit is not to be blamed. However, I really can't tell which subtle differences there are between both softwares.

- Bottom line : one h3ll of a bug

Google Search not working from address bar in Safari

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