Big privacy issue: Typing url from bookmarks into address bar goes to search engine!

[User.1.000.000.000]

Hi and Welcome to the Community and good job for filling out the applicable template, not everyone does so, especially in their first visit…
For future reference though I’d encourage you to use the Brave Community and/or Brave’s GiHub page and search function to see if anyone else has discovered your problem, as they have, see below…

The search bar does not send directly to the site

I’ve opened this issue for the developers to review and will add new information as it comes in:

Bookmarking a base URL results in URL being sent to search engine