Searching through the address bar on Brave, brings up no search results just a blank page


Description of the issue:
The issue I am having is this. When searching through the address bar on Brave, no matter the search engine chosen, it just sends me to a blank page afterwards.

How can this issue be reproduced?
Just by typing something in the search bar, no matter the search engine. For example, searching “Batman” brings me to a blank page. I had Bing set originally as my main search engine, and tested Google out after and I encountered the same issues each time. I cleared cache and re-installed Brave, but neither of that worked.

I can access Google and Bing when I navigate to their sites. Searching is completely fine that way. But it seems the address bar doesn’t want to bring me to the search results. It’ll load a page, but it’s completely blank.

Do you guys know what could be causing it?

Brave Version( check About Brave): Version 1.70.126 Chromium: 129.0.6668.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additional Information:
Screenshot of the issue I have:

Thought the issue was resolved because it started working all of a sudden, giving me a page with results finally, but now it started acting up again.

Thank goodness there is an option to un-delete a topic. I deleted it thinking the issue was resolved.

I kind of found a workaround. If I right-click on a bit of text and search via bing that way, it brings up the results page fine. I can even enter a search in the address bar afterwards, but it eventually goes back to a black page if I search again in another tab for example. So idk what the issue could be.

It’s not a major issue, but is annoying.

Edit* - Well that was short lived, that method stopped working.

@Bremaine,
Thank you for the detailed report.
To me this sounds like an issue caused by an extension — can you please try opening a Guest profile (Menu --> More tools --> Guest window) and test the behavior there and tell me if the issue persists there?

Sorry for the late reply. It started working again, so I’m going to guess it sorted itself out. Will keep an eye on it though. Thanks for the help!

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@Bremaine,
Please let me know here if the issue occurs again, I’ll keep this thread open for the next couple of weeks