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Disconnect Search is a browser extension that lets you search privately using your favorite search engine.
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Power Point and PDF pages don't open correctly #32

Open jessicabrodsky opened 10 years ago

jessicabrodsky commented 10 years ago

Reported by user:

"I really like Disconnect. So that you can check on some strange behavior, I wanted to let you know that in the last couple of days, I've been having some problems with the page browse functionality. Today, I searched on Google for "least squares estimation derivatives equal to zero," and tried to download a PowerPoint file and a .pdf from two of the sites that came up in the results.

This is the URL of the page in my browser for the results page: https://search.disconnect.me/browse/https://www.google.com/search?q=least+squares+estimation+derivatives+equal+to+zero&gbv=1&sei=hYDFUoXyI9WvsQTK6ICYDg

When I tried to open the .ppt with Office 2013, it was not possible to open it ("PowerPoint can't open this type of file...", and when I opened the pdf, it was just a series of blank pages. I have attached this file, in case you would like to validate.

The PowerPoint was from

www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/.../cos323_s06_lecture07_lsq.ppt

The .pdf was from

www.seas.ucla.edu/~vandenbe/103/lectures/ls.pdf

It would be great to have the option to turn on/off the page browse functionality, without disabling the add-on completely. This is the first time I have noticed the page browse, based on the URL.

I am using Firefox 26 in Windows 7, and have both Disconnect 3.11.0 and Disconnect Search 1.4.0."