Google Search not working from address bar in Safari

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

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

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>Searchdisable '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.

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

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

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.

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

Tom

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.

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".

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.

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.

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

Could "our" problems be related to this?

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-fixes-broken-twitter-links-in-safari-i n-third-beta-of-os-x-10-11-4.1955621/

No.

I updated with the last beta (El Capitan Update Public Beta 3 version 10.11.14) and it's been a few days without this google search problem. May be they fixed it? (fingers crossed)