diff --git a/main.js b/main.js
index 5e15af1..4b4658b 100644
--- a/main.js
+++ b/main.js
@@ -1255,7 +1255,14 @@ function createTab(initial, opts = {}) {
         return navigateTab(id, target + rest);
       }
       if (parsed.protocol === "bns:") return;
-      if (isBnsHost(parsed.hostname)) { e.preventDefault(); navigateTab(id, parsed.hostname + parsed.pathname); }
+      if (isBnsHost(parsed.hostname)) {
+        // Preserve query + fragment. Dropping them broke every search engine
+        // that submits via a classic form GET (Google's /search?q=foo lost
+        // the ?q=, so the results page opened blank). DuckDuckGo only
+        // appeared to work because its search is a client-side pushState.
+        e.preventDefault();
+        navigateTab(id, u.replace(/^[a-z]+:\/\//i, ""));
+      }
     } catch {}
   });
   // "You have unsaved changes" confirmation: fires when the page's beforeunload
@@ -1381,13 +1388,18 @@ async function navigateTab(id, input) {
   const t = tabById(id); if (!t) return;
   let q = String(input).trim();
   if (!q) return;
-  setLoading(t, true); // show the loading indicator immediately (covers BNS resolution)
   // Address bar doubles as a search box: anything that isn't a URL/hostname
   // (a bare word, or a phrase with spaces) becomes a web search.
   if (!looksLikeUrl(q)) q = SEARCH(q);
   const raw = q.replace(/^[a-z]+:\/\//i, "");
   const host = raw.split("/")[0].toLowerCase();
   const rest = raw.slice(host.length) || "/";
+  // Reflect the target URL immediately so the address bar doesn't keep
+  // showing the previous page's URL for the whole load duration. Without
+  // this, emitTabs below (triggered by setLoading) carries the old t.url
+  // and the chrome renderer paints it, since we blurred the input on Enter.
+  t.url = "https://" + host + (rest === "/" ? "" : rest);
+  setLoading(t, true); // show the loading indicator immediately (covers BNS resolution)
 
   t.nav = (t.nav || 0) + 1;
   // Legacy "also on BCNR" chip state — kept clean; the passive switch is gone