Fix URL bar problem from no default search engine

[thbtmntgn]

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Describe the issue you encountered: URL Bar clears itself when I press Enter after writing a URL or a search term.

Expected behavior: Go to brave.com if I write brave.com + press Enter

• Platform (Win7, 8, 10? macOS? Linux distro?): OS X El Capitan version 10.11.6
• Brave Version: 0.11.2
• Steps to reproduce:
  1. Write a URL or a search term in URL Bar
  2. Press Enter
  3. See URL Bar clears itself and nothing happen
• Screenshot if needed:
• Any related issues: maybe issue Pressing Enter twice after entering URL clears the URL Bar #2952

[willy-b]

FYI, I can't reproduce this in Ubuntu 14.04 with Brave built from recent master (commit 9213bf0 ).

Any tips?

[reesinkf]

Confirmed for windows 10. Unable to use the browser now except for visiting bookmarked websites :-(

[cezaraugusto]

Unreproducible running macOS 10.10 (Yosemite).

[bbondy]

Work around is to change your search engine and then change it back. Seems like an upgrade from old search problem.

[reesinkf]

Thank you bbondy, this has fixed it for me!

[thbtmntgn]

Yes it works for me too !

No search engine was defined by default after the last update.

I choosed one and it works !

Thanks !

[darkdh]

Test steps:

1. Make sure brave is closed and open ~/Library/Application Support/brave/session-store-1 and find search.default-search-engine
2. Modify the value to content/search/google.xml which is our old value of search engine
3. Launch brave and open about:preferences#search to see whether default search engine is selected
4. Replace content/search/google.xml to content/search/duckduckgo.xml and repeat step 2 and 3

[zischkau]

I'm having the same problem after updating Brave on August 5, 2016, running OS X El Capitain 10.11.6. My home page loads, but can't change the address and typing a URL in a new tab just disappears when I hit return. The above-mentioned work-around doesn't work on my machine. Need another fix, quick!

[pabpas]

This is still happening on 0.11.6 (Win10) but depends on what I search for. I don't know what the pattern is but the following don't work: "el", "le", "art", "li"... it doesn't matter which or how many characters come after, pressing enter will clear the URL bar.

Other search terms work fine for example: "po", "us", "yo"...