Thoughts and Theories From Roger Andre
for the curious, and people getting to grips with computing and computers.
Saturday 19 July 2008, 7:54 PM
Facebook Bans Firefox 3
Because I dared to try and access facebook with firefox 3, and all the cookies disabled,
it won't let me back on there with firefox ever again, even though all the cookies have been
enabled again!! Everything is still working fine with the release candidate of IE 8 though.
What kind of people are we dealing with here? Or indeed, what kind of coding? or maybe it's
all down to eratic electronic behaviour, and no one is responsible.
Here's another thing, ever since updating to ff3, my macafee site adviser has failed to work.
Yes I will tell the relevent people, but all this has kept me on IE8 (which is a joy to use).
Is there any chance that microsofts tiny stake in facebook has anything to do with the firefox
on my rig being barred forever? Anyone else had this issue?
Yes I will reinstall ff3, I'm just very curious as to what is going on here, and why it may be
going on!
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FaceBook works just fine for me in Firefox 3. I'm guessing something to screwed up with MacCrapee's site advisor. You shouldn't be using the site advisor anyway, since it's slow and cruddy, and Firefox has one built in. You might want to research things a little bit before jumping to conclusions.
Fair comment....what interested me is that it only failed after disabling cookies, and still after re enabling them. As for McAfee, there are no speed issues with this on my rig, and it is useful with IE8.
I don t believe that I jumped to any conclusions, all I did was list a set of possibilities and state that I was curious....cheers
try: "Tools/Options/privacy/Cookies/Exceptions".
See if "Facebook.com" is listed (as "block");
if so, remove the site from the block (or switch it to allow).
Mozilla/Firefox used to have an option for setting any sites where you have removed cookies from to "BLOCK" (so they wont set cookies ever again). This can be useful, but also could be preventing you from getting "new" cookies from a legit site. Not sure about FF3 .vs. removing older cookies, but it is worth a look. If Facebook is listed as "Block" that might just be your issue. Worth looking at least :)
Thank you roseman.....
First I tried allow, this didnt work.
Then I tried removing from list, and still no joy!
I am going to go for the reinstall, I will keep you posted.
cheers rog
p.s. i ve just come back to do an edit.
The reinstallation did the trick, although under normal circumstances the methods you outlined would have worked, so once again...thanks. Still puzzled as to what happened, may give it another go at somepoint to see if I get the same tedious result.
