Chrome browser bar shows about:blank instead of site address. How fix?

[berntd]

This started happeni g some while back.
When searvhing in goodle, clicking a search result link, opens the link in Chrome.
But tge address bar remains empty, showing about:blank

It is not possible to navigate back or anything. Reloading causes the page to disappear and screen is the really blank.
Edit: Actually the same about:blank symptom happens when opening links in Facebook, email etc.

Is there a fix perhaps?

Samsung tablet Tab A model SM-T510
Knox 3.7 API lvl33
Google 14.3.9.26.arm
Chrome 109.0.5414.86

 

[berntd]

A lot of googling around came up that some Pixel phone users have experienced this problem but I gave not found any solutions. found.