Index: src/chrome/browser/search_engines/template_url.cc
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--- src/chrome/browser/search_engines/template_url.cc	(revision 46737)
+++ src/chrome/browser/search_engines/template_url.cc	(working copy)
@@ -313,27 +313,28 @@
        i != replacements_.rend(); ++i) {
     switch (i->type) {
       case ENCODING:
-        url.insert(i->index, input_encoding);
+        /* Temporary workaround according to http://crbug.com/41887 */
+        url.replace(i->index, 0, input_encoding);
         break;
 
       case GOOGLE_ACCEPTED_SUGGESTION:
         if (accepted_suggestion == NO_SUGGESTION_CHOSEN)
-          url.insert(i->index, L"aq=f&");
+          url.replace(i->index, 0, L"aq=f&");
         else if (accepted_suggestion != NO_SUGGESTIONS_AVAILABLE)
-          url.insert(i->index, StringPrintf(L"aq=%d&", accepted_suggestion));
+          url.replace(i->index, 0, StringPrintf(L"aq=%d&", accepted_suggestion));
         break;
 
       case GOOGLE_BASE_URL:
-        url.insert(i->index, GoogleBaseURLValue());
+        url.replace(i->index, 0, GoogleBaseURLValue());
         break;
 
       case GOOGLE_BASE_SUGGEST_URL:
-        url.insert(i->index, GoogleBaseSuggestURLValue());
+        url.replace(i->index, 0, GoogleBaseSuggestURLValue());
         break;
 
       case GOOGLE_ORIGINAL_QUERY_FOR_SUGGESTION:
         if (accepted_suggestion >= 0)
-          url.insert(i->index, L"oq=" +
+          url.replace(i->index, 0, L"oq=" +
                      UTF16ToWideHack(encoded_original_query) + L"&");
         break;
 
@@ -347,7 +348,7 @@
         RLZTracker::GetAccessPointRlz(RLZTracker::CHROME_OMNIBOX, &rlz_string);
         if (!rlz_string.empty()) {
           rlz_string = L"rlz=" + rlz_string + L"&";
-          url.insert(i->index, rlz_string);
+          url.replace(i->index, 0, rlz_string);
         }
 #endif
         break;
@@ -358,18 +359,18 @@
         base::WideToCodepage(terms, WideToASCII(input_encoding).c_str(),
                              base::OnStringConversionError::SKIP,
                              &unescaped_terms);
-        url.insert(i->index, std::wstring(unescaped_terms.begin(),
+        url.replace(i->index, 0, std::wstring(unescaped_terms.begin(),
                                           unescaped_terms.end()));
         break;
       }
 
       case LANGUAGE:
-        url.insert(i->index,
+        url.replace(i->index, 0,
                    ASCIIToWide(g_browser_process->GetApplicationLocale()));
         break;
 
       case SEARCH_TERMS:
-        url.insert(i->index, UTF16ToWideHack(encoded_terms));
+        url.replace(i->index, 0, UTF16ToWideHack(encoded_terms));
         break;
 
       default: