Jon's suggestion for browser spoofing restores a visible Google search box on the home page and results, but it turns off Instant Search, which I've grown to like.
A little more experimenting reveals that Safari 5.0.5 fails just like OmniWeb. So this appears to be an incompatibility with the version of WebKit in OmniWeb 5.11.2 and Safari 5.0.5 on 10.6.8.
Software Update on my 10.6.8 Mac says Safari 5.0.5 is the lastest release. But Googling about this problem revealed there's a
Safari 5.1.7 release for 10.6.8. Safari 5.1.7 on 10.6.8 and Safari 6.0 on 10.7.4 work fine.
Let's all tell Google we'd like them to fix their search box for Safari 5.0.5 and OmniWeb 5.11.2:
Google Feedback
Here's what I just submitted:
Quote:
Several days ago the search box disappeared on the Google Search home page and results page when using Safari 5.0.5 and OmniWeb 5.11.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.8.
The search box can be restored in OmniWeb using browser spoofing (as Safari 4.0 or OmniWeb 5.1), but Google Instant Search is disabled.
Please fix the Google Search box for the version of WebKit in Safari 5.0.5 and OmniWeb 5.11.2.
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-- Ward