Social Fixer 6.6 Release Notes
Social Fixer 6.6 fixes some issues and adds some cool new functionality. There are still some known issues, but I’m working on resolving those soon. Please update to make sure Social Fixer keeps working correctly.
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New
A “Save” icon is now available on each post which pops up a window to save the link or post to Pocket. For details about this feature, see this FAQ entry: What is Pocket and the Save For Later feature?
- Clicking on “Social Reader” links (example: Your Friend read a story on Yahoo! News) now opens the story directly, rather than prompting you to install the App.
- New Option: Specify the max-width of of Timeline pages when viewing in single-column mode.
- New Option: Hide the “Interests” section in the left column (Layout tab).
- New Option: Hide “Trending Articles” in the news feed (Popular tab).
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Changed
- Filtering by story type is no longer supported. Unfortunately, Facebook removed the data that Social Fixer used to identify post types and filter them. If you have filters setup using post types, you will be alerted with a red alert on the Social Fixer menu wrench in the header. I will be working on an improved Filtering interface which will help to restore this type of filtering functionality, in a different form.
- Notification Previews have been disabled by default for all users, because they were causing performance problems and lockups for some users (particularly in Chrome). You can still enable them if you haven’t had problems. I am looking into how to correctly solve this problem.
- When posts are tabbed by application or filter, they were previously sorted chronologically to make sure they were in the correct order. Social Fixer no longer does this by default, because it caused performance problems for some users. The option to enable this functionality still exists in the Advanced tab of options.
- Improved display of single-column Timeline pages.
- Updated Firefox compatibility to 15.0a1
- Removed the detection and hiding of “duplicate” stories, because it causes other problems, such as separate stories on the same item to be incorrectly flagged as duplicates. I am working on a better fix for this.</ul>
Fixed
- Opera extension now works correctly.
- When “Pin notifications to the right panel” was enabled, the text inside stretched wider than the container.
- Fixed some problems with the option to auto-expand “see more” links in posts.
- The “Friends” box on Timeline pages stopped hiding after a Facebook code change.
- Friend Tracker was sometimes being hidden behind other right-column content when scrolling.
- In chat, the status icons were floating next to the names, rather than being stuck to the right.
- Social Fixer caused Firefox 12 to throw an error when certain cookie settings were enabled (network.cookie.lifetimePolicy=1 causes localStorage to be undefined),
- The control panel stopped scrolling down with the page after a Facebook code change.
- Long friend names in Chat were wrapped incorrectly. They are now chopped off and shortened with “…” at the end.
- “Hovercard” info popups were still showing when the option was set to hide them, when you hovered over the profile photo instead of the name.</ul>
- Long friend names in Chat were wrapped incorrectly. They are now chopped off and shortened with “…” at the end.
- The control panel stopped scrolling down with the page after a Facebook code change.
- Social Fixer caused Firefox 12 to throw an error when certain cookie settings were enabled (network.cookie.lifetimePolicy=1 causes localStorage to be undefined),
- In chat, the status icons were floating next to the names, rather than being stuck to the right.
- Friend Tracker was sometimes being hidden behind other right-column content when scrolling.
- The “Friends” box on Timeline pages stopped hiding after a Facebook code change.
- Fixed some problems with the option to auto-expand “see more” links in posts.
- When “Pin notifications to the right panel” was enabled, the text inside stretched wider than the container.
- Removed the detection and hiding of “duplicate” stories, because it causes other problems, such as separate stories on the same item to be incorrectly flagged as duplicates. I am working on a better fix for this.</ul>
- Updated Firefox compatibility to 15.0a1
- Improved display of single-column Timeline pages.
- When posts are tabbed by application or filter, they were previously sorted chronologically to make sure they were in the correct order. Social Fixer no longer does this by default, because it caused performance problems for some users. The option to enable this functionality still exists in the Advanced tab of options.
- Notification Previews have been disabled by default for all users, because they were causing performance problems and lockups for some users (particularly in Chrome). You can still enable them if you haven’t had problems. I am looking into how to correctly solve this problem.
- New Option: Hide “Trending Articles” in the news feed (Popular tab).
- New Option: Hide the “Interests” section in the left column (Layout tab).
- New Option: Specify the max-width of of Timeline pages when viewing in single-column mode.
- Clicking on “Social Reader” links (example: Your Friend read a story on Yahoo! News) now opens the story directly, rather than prompting you to install the App.
