Google search works intermittently, and when it doesn't work it times out as if the server was down. What happens when I try to access the site varies depending on the site. What I would really like to know is how I can diagnose what this difference is. However, since it works in Safari but not Chrome, the two browsers must be doing something differently.

Given the symptoms described below, it the issue seems likely to be some misconfiguration of the router, which unfortunately I'm not in a position to change. This is on a Retina Macbook Pro with 10.8.3 Mountain Lion. These include Google search, Facebook and, but for some reason Gmail is ok. When accessing the internet from my home connection, Google Chrome has trouble accessing certain sites that use https. It's possible that others still have the same issue and that answers to this question might help them - but it seems more likely that my problem was fixed long ago and that more recent issues are actually a different problem. I personally haven't experienced this problem for several years. Please note: this question is from 2013, but it's received some recent answers (2017).

Google chrome site cannot be reached