Questions tagged [facebook]
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Facebook reboots computer after several minutes
Running Windows 7 Ultimate - 64 bit, any browser (I have several), 3.60 GHz, 16 GB RAM.
Whenever I access Facebook after several minutes it crashes the computer with a memory dump and reboots. I have ...
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How to link Facebook Messenger to the Mac OS built-in Messages App in 2016?
Before last year, we can receive Facebook Messenger messages in the Messages app via Jabber, which is super convenient.
However Facebook does not provide Jabber API anymore. I am wondering whether ...
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add parmanently code to remote site
As I am using facebook (for example) I'd love to create my own custom extensions to make chat black, or change text color (mostly css and js changes). Is it possible to make my chrome, or firefox do ...
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uBlock - Remove Mark Zuckerberg from my Facebook display
Facebook decided that "Mark Zuckerberg" is lonely and suggests that I befriend him on Facebook all the time.
To get rid of that, I would like to remove the useless right column.
I am using Firefox ...
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Blank favicon for redirecting bookmark on Google Chrome
I've bookmarked the Messenger website on chrome. When visiting this website, users are redirected to their most recent conversation. As a result, my bookmark's favicon is left blank. Is there a way to ...
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using a web browser, how to lie to a website that we are in fullscreen?
Many websites change the way they display content according to whether the browser has entered full screen or is a regular window.
for example Facebook shows an image one way in a regular window and ...
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How to add Facebook Events and Birthdays to Outlook 2016
Since sunrise is going down soon, I'm starting to look into outlook as an alternative, as they suggest. I added my gmail accounts, but can't find a way to link my Facebook calendar with it.
I've ...
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How can I archive someone's Facebook profile page?
I thought about using archive.is or archive.org. I tried to view the page in a private browser, but it asks to log in, so that site will see the same thing.
I tried to open the developer console and ...
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Hyperlink in e-mail signature malfunctioning
I'm trying to include a link in my email signature that is directed to our company Facebook page. I know the link works, yet when I try to access it from the signature, I am sent to the Facebook login ...
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Why firefox showing some strings instead of Facebook in windows 8
I am using Mozilla Firefox 46.0.1 in windows 8 64 bit machine. I was browsing Facebook well,but suddenly when i was trying to browse Facebook from Firefox, instead of Facebook window some strings are ...
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What embedded database format is used by this Chrome extension?
Chrome extension F.B. Purity writes its data at ~/.config/chromium/Default/Local Extension Settings/ncdlagniojmheiklojdcpdaeepochckl/000003.log (not a log file despite its name).
This file is a kind ...
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Firefox doesn't play facebook Gif images
Firefox doesn't play Facebook GIF images. They look like static JPGs.
I tried changing my firefox profile (firefox.exe -P), and it works fine in another profile.
I restarted firefox with add-ons ...
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How do you disable Facebook notifications in Google Chrome?
I'm not sure how they got turned on... but now whenever I open Chrome, whether on Facebook or not, I constantly receive Facebook popup notifications.
How do I turn this feature off?
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Is there an adblock like addon to block links in facebook [closed]
So there is a lot of pages that i like , But they are very annoying with their links to useless blogs with misleading titles and pictures like this
one
And I almost always fall for them even though i ...
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Use Chrome to open fb:// links
I have a bunch of fb:// links in the contact list I synched from an old iPhone. I'd like to use Chrome to open these links. Basically I need it to automatically open
fb://profile/XXXXXXXXXX
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How to dismiss Facebook video fullscreen right-click menu?
When watching a Facebook video in Full Screen mode (in Chrome), I sometimes right-click as a misclick. This bring up a menu with options to {Pause,Mute,Show Video URL} , like this :
I want to dismiss ...
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Is there any way to block these popups on websites? [closed]
These get really annoying if you're just following a link to watch a news video.
Edit: I used Adblock Plus just now to block all the different elements that make up that popup:
||facebook.com/...
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Can't access Twitter/Facebook/Youtube after upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7
I have upgraded my Windows 7 x64 to Windows 10. The problem I have is that I can't access Twitter/Facebook/Youtube on all my browsers. They just timeout on connecting. I have disabled my anti-virus. ...
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How to redirect away from Facebook's homepage?
When I check Facebook, automatically I land on the News Feed which has a lot of information I would rather never have to see. Thus, I want to redirect the homepage to my profile page. I have installed ...
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How can I modify this script to rotate images on Facebook?
First of all I almost know nothing about programming. I want to rotate any picture that people shared. Tried the bookmark which is mentioned in this answer. It only rotates 90 degrees. Then doesn’t ...
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Stop Facebook videos pre-loading
I currently have an internet access with limited quota. I recently started to notice that videos displayed in the news feed are automatically pre-loaded even without interacting with them at all which ...
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Can't play Facebook videos with Opera browser
I can't seem to play any video on facebook using Opera browser, the error I am getting is
Video Unavailable
We are having trouble playing this video.
Here is a screenshot of the error I am getting:...
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Firefox fails to load pages, waits for Facebook resources
Lately I've been having problems loading pages in Firefox (40.0.3) on a particular website (http://www.idea.int/). I haven't noticed the problem on other websites but not sure if it actually only ...
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Opera won't stay logged into facebook page after restarting browser?
Using Opera 31.0.1889.174 on Windows 7 64-bit. If I log into a facebook "page" (not my main facebook) and then close the browser and re-open it and visit facebook it will no longer be logged into my ...
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How to upload a JPG to facebook with the caption pre-embedded?
What field do I have to put my caption into to have it show up on Facebook pre-captioned?
I've been living on generating FBCMD scripts for years, but the developer has retired the project as of the ...
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Why do I detect a facebook redirect when accessing random websites?
[Windows 7 x64]
Today, after locking out facebook.com by modifying my hosts file I have ntocied that I cannot surf to seemingly random pages on the internet anymore, be they from google results or ...
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Prevent facebook from seeing real IP
I am using OpenVPN through networkmanager on Linux, and all is going well. However, I checked my active sessions on Facebook and it was able to see the IP address from my ISP. How can I prevent my ...
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Safari get stuck on facebook
I am using MacBook pro and the problem is that safari gets stuck when the Facebook is open and also I open another tab and come back to the Facebook tab, then safari get stuck and the cursor becomes ...
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Facebook load times are very slow, but other pages are fast, and >12Mbit/s up & down
I have measured 12 Mbit/s up and downstream. I have a wireless Network Adapter called Asus PCE-N53 (300Mbps 11n Dual band Wireless LAN PCI-E Card) and is connected to my local wireless router. I have ...
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Digikam Facebook upload fails upon Change_Account: "User must specify a valid extended permission or data permission"
I'm trying to authorise the KDE KIPI Import/Export Plugin to uplead photos to Facebook. I'm using Digikam 3.5.0. After I select the URI from my browser window (the one containing access_token=...) ...
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How to remove facebook news add from my browser [duplicate]
Hi i'm getting this advert while surfing the internet. It's very iritating please help me
http://facebook.com-important-finance-news.ninja/?z9ps5pq2l3
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Embedded YouTube videos don't go fullscreen in Facebook
I am using Chrome and this just happens in Facebook and just for YouTube videos (HTML5).
When going fullscreen it shows the video in for a second and than the video disappears and I see the Facebook ...
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How to download Facebook sticker as .png or .jpg extention?
I want to collect Facebook stickers as .png or .jpg files. If anyone already has them, please share with me. Or, is there a way to download them? Currently, I have a workaround solution to download ...
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I can ping facebook but get a time out error
Yesterday I was on facebook: no problems I can get on with my phone but not on my PC.
I've tried other browsers.
I am on a home PC POS Windows Vista machine.
I have flushed DNS and I can ping ...
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how do I stop Facebook from correcting my log in email address [closed]
A year ago, I deactivated my Facebook account. My husband's account can be accessed (and is automatically) from both his laptop and mine. I would like 1) stop having his page automatically open on ...
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How to disable Facebook chat permanentaly without losing XMPP capability
The Facebook chat can be used both on the website and with XMPP, for instance with Pidgin. I want to use only the latter option. Now when I visit facebook.com to look at my newsfeed, I am bothered ...
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Log files with fbcmd ADDPICD command? [closed]
fbcmd allows one to interact with Facebook from the command line. The ADDPICD command adds a directory of .jpg photos to an album. Is there a way to log the progress as the files are transferred or ...
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Blocking main website of facebook and making m.facebook.com available on windows 8.1
I have been searching about the blocking facebook on my computer over the hour, but I am getting exactly the same method over all the webpages.
Change settings on Windows defender to make host file ...
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I can Ping facebook but browser keep showing time out error
it's been more than 4 weeks now that facebook occasionally go down for me, it start by saying that it can't connect to chat, then when i reload the page it tells me that i don't have internet, but i ...
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How does social media sites store posts [closed]
Do social media sites such as Facebook and twitter, store posts in a database? Like mysql? Wouldn't the database be extremely large? Does Facebook or social media sites remove old post?
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Receiving pictures directly in Pidgin over Facebook
I am using Pidgin for the Facebook chat. Every time someone sends a picture or a file in Facebook, I just receive an annoying link in Pidgin. Is there any plugin to display the picture in Pidgin or ...
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Major FIREFOX Redirect Error Problem (Error Code 11156)
I would appreciate some help please. When I try to log into some website, im being redirected to the members only page (e.g. dashboard, main account, etc) but instead of successfully landing there as ...
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windows 8 apps forget saved credentials on close
Some of my windows 8 apps forget the stored credentials and preferences, facebook and lastpass apps being the most common.
Facebook for example will forget my credentials and then once logged in ...
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Unexpected "waiting for localhost"?
So I ran into something that kind of worried me today. Lately my computer has been kind of slow and I'm dealing with that, but today when I opened Facebook in Google Chrome, I noticed a message in the ...
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How long does it take for deleted profiles to disappear from google search results? [closed]
I apologize if this is the wrong stackexchange site, but I did see questions tagged with Facebook/Google+ and what not.
Anyway, I deleted a few online profiles I had (g+, soundcloud, etc...) however ...
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Removing a nasty virus from my computer [duplicate]
I have opened a link on my FaceBook and downloaded an executable file, unfortunately i run this file, now my browser automatically opens a new tabs that go to some one site which contains a counter ...
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What's an easy way to remove the Facebook apps sidebar?
When I go into a Facebook game, there is always this very annoying sidebar which is different from the chat sidebar and it cannot be closed by any options or button selections.
I really dislike it ...
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How do I disable trusted browsers check in facebook? [closed]
Recently, I enabled the trusted browsers feature, but now I want to disable it. I went to disable the feature and it doesn't appear to give me that option. How do I turn this feature off, so I won't ...
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Force PC to use HTTP instead HTTPS on pages like Facebook or Google [duplicate]
Is this possible? I know plugin for Firefox "HTTPS Everywhere", but i need opposite of it.
Thank for answers.
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Keep facebook in a single chrome tab
If I log into facebook, even once the tab is closed, sites I visit know my real name (presumably through cookies). Is there a way to use Chrome to completely isolate a single tab for facebook, so that ...
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