diff --git a/app/util/browser.js b/app/util/browser.js
index eef950409c2..861d736e7f3 100644
--- a/app/util/browser.js
+++ b/app/util/browser.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import URL from 'url-parse';
+import isUrl from 'is-url';
 
 /**
  * Returns a sanitized url, which could be a search engine url if
@@ -11,8 +12,8 @@ import URL from 'url-parse';
  */
 export default function onUrlSubmit(input, searchEngine = 'Google', defaultProtocol = 'https://') {
 	//Check if it's a url or a keyword
-	const res = input.match(/^(?:http(s)?:\/\/)?[\w.-]+(?:\.[\w.-]+)+[\w\-._~:/?#[\]@!&',;=.+]+$/g);
-	if (res === null) {
+	const regEx = new RegExp(/^(?:http(s)?:\/\/)?[\w.-]+(?:\.[\w.-]+)+[\w\-._~:/?#[\]@!&',;=.+]+$/g);
+	if (!isUrl(input) && !regEx.test(input)) {
 		// Add exception for localhost
 		if (!input.startsWith('http://localhost') && !input.startsWith('localhost')) {
 			// In case of keywords we default to google search
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ export default function onUrlSubmit(input, searchEngine = 'Google', defaultProto
 			return searchUrl;
 		}
 	}
-	const hasProtocol = input.match(/^[a-z]*:\/\//);
+	const hasProtocol = /^[a-z]*:\/\//.test(input);
 	const sanitizedURL = hasProtocol ? input : `${defaultProtocol}${input}`;
 	return sanitizedURL;
 }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b996eaee948..e5e57aa4133 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@
     "events": "3.0.0",
     "fuse.js": "3.4.4",
     "https-browserify": "0.0.1",
+    "is-url": "^1.2.4",
     "json-rpc-engine": "5.1.5",
     "json-rpc-middleware-stream": "2.1.1",
     "lottie-react-native": "git+https://github.com/MetaMask/lottie-react-native.git#7ce6a78ac4ac7b9891bc513cb3f12f8b9c9d9106",
@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@
     "react-native": "0.62.2",
     "react-native-actionsheet": "beefe/react-native-actionsheet#107/head",
     "react-native-aes-crypto": "^1.3.9",
-	"react-native-aes-crypto-forked": "git+https://github.com/MetaMask/react-native-aes-crypto-forked.git#397d5db5250e8e7408294807965b5b9fd4ca6a25",
+    "react-native-aes-crypto-forked": "git+https://github.com/MetaMask/react-native-aes-crypto-forked.git#397d5db5250e8e7408294807965b5b9fd4ca6a25",
     "react-native-animated-fox": "git+https://github.com/MetaMask/react-native-animated-fox.git#16e38d54d829709e497f196e31fa8ff00cdf2aa9",
     "react-native-background-timer": "2.1.1",
     "react-native-branch": "5.0.0-beta.1",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 8cb80320fe3..b801f34978b 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -6961,6 +6961,11 @@ is-typedarray@1.0.0, is-typedarray@^1.0.0, is-typedarray@~1.0.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/is-typedarray/-/is-typedarray-1.0.0.tgz#e479c80858df0c1b11ddda6940f96011fcda4a9a"
   integrity sha1-5HnICFjfDBsR3dppQPlgEfzaSpo=
 
+is-url@^1.2.4:
+  version "1.2.4"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/is-url/-/is-url-1.2.4.tgz#04a4df46d28c4cff3d73d01ff06abeb318a1aa52"
+  integrity sha512-ITvGim8FhRiYe4IQ5uHSkj7pVaPDrCTkNd3yq3cV7iZAcJdHTUMPMEHcqSOy9xZ9qFenQCvi+2wjH9a1nXqHww==
+
 is-weakmap@^2.0.1:
   version "2.0.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/is-weakmap/-/is-weakmap-2.0.1.tgz#5008b59bdc43b698201d18f62b37b2ca243e8cf2"