Re: Issue 387175 in chromium: Chrome Omnibox Not Producing Search Results

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Comment #1 on issue 387175 by mdemp...@chromium.org: Chrome Omnibox Not
Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

Sarah: Can you please go to chrome://version and copy/paste the contents of
the page here? Thanks.

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Labels: Needs-Feedback Cr-UI-Browser-Search

Comment #5 on issue 387175 by meh...@chromium.org: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

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Cc: kmadh...@chromium.org
Labels: Cr-Internals-Preload

Comment #6 on issue 387175 by davi...@chromium.org: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

+kmadhusu for instant search prerender stuff. Here's another one of these.

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Comment #7 on issue 387175 by kmadh...@chromium.org: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

I will take a look.

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Status: Assigned

Comment #9 on issue 387175 by smok...@chromium.org: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

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Comment #14 on issue 387175 by kmadh...@chromium.org: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

Issue 386781 has been merged into this issue.

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Comment #15 on issue 387175 by C...@roadrunner.com: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

Oh dear. I just noticed that too. What seems to be repeatedly happening,
is that I set my default to google, but then it gets changed (without
anyone on my end doing it) to V9. I just re-set the default to google and
re-did a search from the search bar and the results populated with no
problem the first time. I tried a few days ago to get that V9 thing off by
removing programs, but it doesn't show up in there.

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Comment #16 on issue 387175 by C...@roadrunner.com: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

Oh dear. I just noticed that too. What seems to be repeatedly happening,
is that I set my default to google, but then it gets changed (without
anyone on my end doing it) to V9. I just re-set the default to google and

re-did a search from the address bar and the results populated with no

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Comment #17 on issue 387175 by kmadh...@chromium.org: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

CC21@, you posted your reply in a different bug instead of crbug.com/386781.

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Comment #18 on issue 387175 by kmadh...@chromium.org: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

Issue 386781 has been merged into this issue.

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Comment #19 on issue 387175 by kmadh...@chromium.org: Chrome Omnibox Not

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Comment #20 on issue 387175 by sama...@chromium.org: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

From the second screenshot in #1, it looks like we're trying to load the
search base page over HTTP. But the Emebedded Search API will never bind
unless without a secure connection. I suspect that's the issue -- we
should never try to do search base page prerendering over HTTP.

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Comment #23 on issue 387175 by SarahDem...@gmail.com: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

In reply to #12:

(1) It happens every time I try a search with more than one word. If I
search "Baylor" it will work correctly. If I search "Baylor University"
then I have the issue.
(2) Yes
(3) From chrome://version/

Google Chrome 35.0.1916.153 (Official Build 274914)
OS Mac OS X
Blink 537.36 (@175075)
JavaScript V8 3.25.28.18
Flash 14.0.0.125
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3)
AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36
Command Line /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
--flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Executable Path /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
Profile Path /Users/dempskys/Library/Application
Support/Google/Chrome/Default
Variations e950616e-37fb3cc2
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ca65a9fe-91ac3782
8d790604-9cb2a91c
4ea303a6-3d47f4f4
b2612322-f8cf70e2
5a3c10b5-e1cc0f14
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5e29d81-f23d1dea
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75f0f0a0-4ad60575
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cbf0c14e-bf3e6cfd


(4) Please attach a screenshot of chrome://net-internals/#prerender page.


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Comment #24 on issue 387175 by mdemp...@chromium.org: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

I've also asked Sarah to try navigating to https://www.google.com, and she
says Chrome keeps silently redirecting her to http://www.google.com. Also,
when she tries to navigate to https://encrypted.google.com, "the loading
circle just keeps spinning".

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Comment #25 on issue 387175 by SarahDem...@gmail.com: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

Here's the output from "dig www.google.com":



Last login: Sat Jun 21 12:57:32 on console
047t-sd-21789:~ dempskys$ dig www.google.com

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> www.google.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 42242
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.google.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.com. 201 IN A 216.239.32.20

;; Query time: 6 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.250.245#53(192.168.250.245)
;; WHEN: Tue Jul 1 14:15:51 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 48

047t-sd-21789:~ dempskys$

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Comment #26 on issue 387175 by mdemp...@chromium.org: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

That appears to be the nosslsearch address. So maybe the embedded search
API isn't interoperating correctly with nosslsearch?

Also, I told Sarah that she can go home for the day, since that seems like
enough information that we should be able to reproduce now. She'll be
available to provide more information on Monday. (During summer break,
she's only in the office one day a week.)

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Comment #30 on issue 387175 by SarahDem...@gmail.com: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

In reply to #28

My User Agent is:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36

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Comment #31 on issue 387175 by SarahDem...@gmail.com: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

To clarify on the single-word search from #27,

When it does NOT work, I get:
http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&gws_rd=ssl&safe=active&ssui=on

When is DOES work, I get:
http://www.google.com/search?q=southwest&oq=southwest&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0l5.902j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8&gws_rd=ssl&safe=active&ssui=on

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Comment #33 on issue 387175 by tienj...@gmail.com: Chrome Omnibox Not
Producing Search Results
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

Same problem happened in Chrome Version 38.0.2125.101, Mac OS X.

Instead of http, the URL of the blank page is
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8

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Comment #34 on issue 387175 by zestawma...@gmail.com: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

I have the same problem with Chromium 38.0.2125.104 (Build 290379) on
ArchLinux with identical symptoms (one word queries work fine, multiple
word redirects to Google home page), tried also steps from #27, same
results with blank page
https://www.google.pl/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8

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Comment #35 on issue 387175 by brandont...@gmail.com: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

When google is my default search engine, all of my google
search 'shortcuts'(images, books,imfeelinglucky) are redirected to a
standard google search result page. Noticing the 'sourceid=chrome-instant',
I turned off the instant search, and it is replaced
by 'sourceid=chrome-psyapi2' and shows the standard google search result
page. the URL string I use for my image search
is 'https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&tbm=isch'
when I type this into the omnibox directly(my query instead of %s), it goes
to the proper google result page. In-site searching behaves normally and
when I change the default search engine to another site, I get the correct
result pages with these attempts.

Google Chrome 38.0.2125.104 (Official Build 290379)
OS Linux
Blink 537.36 (@183466)
JavaScript V8 3.28.71.15
Flash 15.0.0.189
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.104 Safari/537.36
Command Line /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --flag-switches-begin
--enable-offline-load-stale-cache --use-simple-cache-backend=on
--enable-smooth-scrolling --flag-switches-end

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Comment #36 on issue 387175 by brandont...@gmail.com: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

When google is my default search engine, all of my google
search 'shortcuts'(images, books,imfeelinglucky) are redirected to a
standard google search result page. Noticing the 'sourceid=chrome-instant',
I turned off the instant search, and it is replaced
by 'sourceid=chrome-psyapi2' and shows the standard google search result
page. the URL string I use for my image search
is 'https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&tbm=isch'
when I type this into the omnibox directly(my query instead of %s), it goes
to the proper google result page. In-site searching behaves normally and
when I change the default search engine to another site, I get the correct

result pages with these attempts. It does not matter how long the query is.

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Comment #37 on issue 387175 by robert.s...@gmail.com: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

This issue was a MAJOR problem for me until I started using this workaround:
Add a new default search provider with something like this for the three
visible fields:
Anyname
Anyname.somename
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%s
This makes the omnibox work, as well as any google-referencing 'shortcuts'
(search macros) used from the omnibox. I did this months ago, but I seem
to remember that to achieve this I had to jimmy up the contents of
the "Secure Preferences" file in one of the Chrome configuration
directories while Chrome was not running. It got rid of the problems,
which I suspect is related to Google's search javascript use
of "{google:baseURL}" on way too much when the normal Google entry is the
default search engine.

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Comment #38 on issue 387175 by la...@thehaverkamps.net: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

#37 workaround solved this for me too

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Comment #39 on issue 387175 by dbl...@google.com: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

I've been seeing this, but only occasionally, for months.

Observations:
- I'm seeing it on Windows, not Mac or Linux.
- I see this on Google's internal network.
- The URL I get directed to is
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8 ,
not
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8
as reported above (has addition &es_th=1). BTW, you can find additional
reports of this problem by searching for either of those URLs.
- A subsequent search always succeeds. The URL then is
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8&q=<query>

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Comment #40 on issue 387175 by sama...@chromium.org: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

Dan, the next time this happens, can you try waiting for a few minutes to
see if the results eventually load? One problem here is that the current
UI has no loading indication if the results are taking a long time to fetch
from the network. So a slow search can look like a stuck page.

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Comment #41 on issue 387175 by kmadh...@chromium.org: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

dbloch@: Have you set a custom default search engine url in
chrome://settings "search engines" tab?

When this issue happens, can you check the "Google Instant predictions"
settings option in www.google.com -> Search Settings page?

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Comment #42 on issue 387175 by dbl...@google.com: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

kmadh...@: My default search engine is Google. My Google Instant
predictions setting is "Never show Instant results".

sama@...: I'll let you know if I see this again, but I haven't seen it in a
couple weeks.

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Comment #44 on issue 387175 by seth.ly...@nqzero.com: Chrome Omnibox Not

Producing Search Results
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=387175

setting the default search engine to bing is a temporary workaround for
this bug for me