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Missing omnibox functionality when using custom search engine

Reported by a.ephe...@gmail.com, Mar 29 2016 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Go to manage search engines
2. Create custom search engine with url like:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}{google:instantExtendedEnabledParameter}{google:contextualSearchVersion}ie={inputEncoding}
3. Set new search engine as default.
4. Search using omnibox

What is the expected behavior?
Use the user's default search provider to suggest search terms based on the user's input.

What went wrong?
Only search results based on local history are shown, default search engine suggestions are missing.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 49.0.2623.110  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0

This is a major usability issue for users that prefer a custom search engine i.e. always go to google.com instead of the google page suggested by your geolocation algos.

Comment 1 by mpear...@chromium.org, Sep 26 2016

Components: -UI UI>Browser>Omnibox
When managing custom search engines manually, it's not possible to set the URL that indicates where to fetch the suggestions from.  It's only possible to set the URL that the query should go to.

I don't think we have any plans to add a new UI for this.

If the particular context of your concern is that Google is that you want Google to always use a particular google domain, I *think* things will just work if the edit the URL for the built-in default Google search provider.  (I think the hidden URL from which to fetch suggestions will remain intact.)  Just put the proper domain name in there.  You may also need to visit https://www.google.com/ncr once.

The answer was inspired by the suggestions here:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/ZagOo2X7ozQ

Comment 2 by pkasting@chromium.org, Sep 26 2016

Mergedinto: 8395
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)
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