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Problem with HTTPS Everywhere and Google Translate

We recently noticed a small problem where we have HTTPS Everywhere installed within our Firefox Browser and we were trying to view a translation using Google Translate.

The translation page would display correctly yet only the page headers would be shown. The actual translation was not visible.  Inspection of the Java Console revealed an error:

Error: Load denied by X-Frame-Options: https://translate.google.com/translate?client=tmpg&depth=1&hl=en&langpair=en%7Cfr&rurl=translate.google.com&u=http://macrotoneconsulting.co.uk/ does not permit cross-origin framing.

The actual HTTPS rule was already disabled within the HTTPS plugin so we were puzzled as to why it was failing.  We tried disabling the HTTPS Everywhere plugin completely and the translation would work. So it was almost as if even though the actual rule to convert the http to https redirect was disabled it was trying to use the rule!

Though trial and error we discovered two possible solutions to the problem:

1) Enabling the HTTPS Everywhere plugin (seems most of the time we tried) to let the Google Translate display show the actual translation. There is a small delay but that is to be expected.

[We can only assume that within the HTTPS plugin that there is some error associated with disabled plugins that is impacting the redirection.  If disabled it is obviously impacting the display but when enabled, even though the rule is marked as being ‘broken’ it works fine.  Go figure!  We are using the version 5.0 development release, so that might be an explanation] 

2) The other resolution is to disable the plugin completely within the Firefox browser.  Once disabled the translation could clearly be seen on the page.

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