Search with Startpage in address bar
I have Startparge set as my default search engine. I used to type directly into the address bar (see first image).
Press Enter, and the Startpage results page for this search phrase would show up. Somehow, this has now changed. I press Enter, but the result is just the Startpage home page, with a blank search box (see second image). So I then have to type the same phrase in again in Startpage's own box. This just trips me up.
The crazy thing is that this only happens sometimes - but more often than not. I haven't seen it work right for weeks: I just did it now to make screenshots, and it worked wrong. I just did it again and it worked as expected: pressing Enter took me to Startpage's results.
Any clues how to change settings to fix this?
Alla svar (1)
You might need to reinstall the Startpage search plugin.
Try disabling your extensions, one of them might be stripping the query parameter.