Google Search not working from address bar in Safari

I am running Airport Express (latest generation) and having this issue ... so it is not related to non-apple routers ...

TP-LINK 8960N making the connection with the exchange, hard wired to Airport Express which is providing my wi-fi network.

SPD.

Everyone seems to have gone off on a tangent on this, saying stuff about routers, the router is working for all other sites and devices, has worked for many years without issue. The problem lies with Safari and we need answers on this. Do Apple monitor these threads? Does anyone have a real answer that doesn't include getting a new router?

Agreed, posted that mine was a TP-Link to sort of rule out the router argument - i.e. it's not limited to a router type, so not likely to be the router.

As of last night, I'm seeing better results with El Cap 10.11.3 and Safari 9.0.3.

SPD

thanks devros.. did you run the update last night, is that why you think you're seeing better results? My issue with this problem runs deeper than just the google search bar, Im having terrible trouble with all google products, especially loading youtube and embedded youtube videos in other webpages such as facebook, anyone else having the same issue?

Yep, updated last night.

Was having problems searching via the address bar and also by going to google.co.uk.

Additionally, YouTube was v v slow. Much faster now.

SPD.

Cheers mate, I have just run the update now, and I see on here for iMovie which has an update for youtube too, Ill run that and se how performance is then.

And...I spoke too soon.

D'oh... yea I kinda thought it was too good to be true... S what the answer, how do we get Apple to resolve this issue?

Has anyone tried launching Safari while holding the shift key and then trying?

I have a completely clean Safari, no extensions and I've done a hundred google searches today trying to make it fail and it's flawless

Thanks Rob, Just tried this now with some success, I guess this is a way to reset safari, lets see how long it works for.

I don't think it's browser related, I'm having the same issues in chrome.

A few points to share:

-I have gone through the official process with Apple engineers to log this problem. They have taken multiple "captures" of info from my computer and network when I re-create the problem. So far no update from them. They have been advised of this thread.

-I didn't see any improvement with the latest update, if anything the problem has become worse. Before the update it was becoming a lot more reliable.

- I am also seeing lots of problems with other google content, especially embedded youtube videos.

Thanks for this reply Superstar.. please keep us informed of apples response to this.

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...