A few days ago, Google Chrome started acting up. Whenever I ctrl+T for a new tab, enter some search terms and hit Enter, I'm taken to a blank Google homepage with this URL: .
This happens with one-word and multi-word search terms, and with any of the operators I use regularly. It also happens when I try to search in the url/search bar of an existing tab.
Running Chrome 16.0.912.75 m on Windows 7 Pro SP1. I hadn't installed any new extensions for several weeks before this started happening. As far as I can tell, nothing has changed.
75 Answers
Given the URL you posted, it might be related to the Instant Search feature of Chrome. It doesn't work for me and, according to some web searches about it, others.
Toggle the preference and see what happens.
In case you have a corrupted preferences file (you could test this with a pristine Chrome profile by specifying the --user-data-dir command line parameter), this should cause Chrome to overwrite it.
I created a "new" custom search engine using the below url. It allowed me to maintain the predictive search, but made the omnibox search work again (this issue is back as of yesterday, 06/16/14, for me).
1This was happening to me and for some reason disabling "User-Agent Switcher for Chrome" resolved the issue.
Like the answer from Daniel Back already said, it's an problem with the suggest feature. You can fix this with going to:
chrome://flagsand set the "#answers-in-suggest" flag to activate.
This is how I fixed this problem: I went to Preferences, Google Instant predictions Shows this: When should we show you results as you type?
- Only when my computer is fast enough.
- Always show Instant results.
- Never show Instant results.
I switched it from 1 to 2 and saved my changes.
Everything back to normal! Now when I search in google, it does not bring me to another google page, but the results page I was looking for. Hope this helps!
