What’s New (and fixed) In Social Fixer 7.601
This update to Social Fixer resolves a number of known bugs caused by updates to browsers and Facebook. It fixes some features and adds some tweaks. Although it’s not yet perfect, it’s much more stable. I will be continuing to work hard at making it more solid, reliable, and useful to you all!
Install the 7.601 update by going to SocialFixer.com
Development Note: The browser makers (especially Chrome and Firefox) have made some fundamental changes to their code lately that broke this extension and many others. Some of the problems that users have been having are because of this, and I am working hard to update my code to follow the new guidelines from each browser maker. It can be a bit tricky!
What's New
- Hashtags: Added a new section to Options to customize the display of the new #Hashtag links
- Notifications: Added a new “Notifications” item in the Option dialog’s left panel, where all the options related to Notifications are now stored. Added a new option to hide the notification “Beeper” box that appears in the lower left corner when a new notification comes in.
- Tab > Enter to Submit Comments: Added a checkbox to the blue button to disable this feature. Although this could always be disabled in Options, this shortcut will be easier for users to find.</ul>
What's Fixed
- Chat: The display of the user list didn’t render correctly, and clicking on a name in the list didn’t pop up the chat window. Chat fixes also didn’t work on Chrome v27+.
- Chrome: Changes in version 27 broke a number of features. Chat and “Disable Image Lightbox” are fixed. See below for some features which are still broken. Chrome 29 (Canary) broke a few more things and caused script errors to pop up, which are now fixed.
- Firefox: An “evalInSandbox” error was popping up for some users after Mozilla changed some of their internal Firefox code.
- Wrench Icon: Has been moved to the far right after a Facebook layout changed caused their icons to overlap the wrench icon for some users. If the wrench icon is off the right side of the screen and you can’t scroll to it, zoom out in your browser, and disable the “Lock the blue header bar at the top even if the screen is small” option in Social Fixer Options.
- Image Preview: Some image previews were not showing correctly, and others were not showing at all.
- Messages: When the “Fix Timestamp” option was enabled, messages only displayed “Today” rather than the actual time.
- Hidden Items: Some items that were hidden on the screen with the “x” couldn’t be un-hidden in options.
- Ads: Were not being hidden correctly in the photo popup viewer
- Anonymize Screen: Minor fixes to hide things that were not being hidden.
- Social Fixer was running on some sites other than Facebook.com, inside of embedded plugins and iframes. This has been fixed.
- Removed console debug logging during startup, which annoyed some users.</ul>
What's Removed
- Removed Timeline options. Almost every account/page is now converted over to the single-column content layout, causing most of the Timeline options to stop working. New options to customize the new Timeline layout may be added later.
- Tagging in Comment Replies: This option has been temporarily removed because a Facebook code change prevents it from functioning correctly, causing a <?> character to be shown instead. User names will still be inserted, but they will not be tagged or notified.</ul>
What’s Still Broken
Because Facebook and the browsers themselves are constant moving targets, there are always a few things broken that I need to look at. Here are a few of the things I know about:
- Chrome 27+: Because of the changes that Google has made in the browser, the following features are still not working: Automatically clicking older posts, Pinning notifications to the right and notification previews, Auto-switching to “Most Recent” view, Quoting text in comments when replying. You can see the Chrome issue/bug itself here, and all my comments to them about why this change is very painful
- Invite All link to invite many friends to events no longer works because Facebook put restrictions on how many people could be invited at once. Right now there is no known work-around for this.
- For more, check out http://SocialFixer.com/bugs (needs updated, will do soon…)</ul>
Questions? Problems? Need Support?
The Support Team and the Social Fixer user community can help you out in the Social Fixer Support Group, located here: http://SocialFixer.com/support/
I hope this release works well for you and resolves many of the known problems!
– Matt Kruse, author of Social Fixer
- For more, check out http://SocialFixer.com/bugs (needs updated, will do soon…)</ul>
- Invite All link to invite many friends to events no longer works because Facebook put restrictions on how many people could be invited at once. Right now there is no known work-around for this.
- Tagging in Comment Replies: This option has been temporarily removed because a Facebook code change prevents it from functioning correctly, causing a <?> character to be shown instead. User names will still be inserted, but they will not be tagged or notified.</ul>
- Removed console debug logging during startup, which annoyed some users.</ul>
- Social Fixer was running on some sites other than Facebook.com, inside of embedded plugins and iframes. This has been fixed.
- Anonymize Screen: Minor fixes to hide things that were not being hidden.
- Ads: Were not being hidden correctly in the photo popup viewer
- Hidden Items: Some items that were hidden on the screen with the “x” couldn’t be un-hidden in options.
- Messages: When the “Fix Timestamp” option was enabled, messages only displayed “Today” rather than the actual time.
- Image Preview: Some image previews were not showing correctly, and others were not showing at all.
- Wrench Icon: Has been moved to the far right after a Facebook layout changed caused their icons to overlap the wrench icon for some users. If the wrench icon is off the right side of the screen and you can’t scroll to it, zoom out in your browser, and disable the “Lock the blue header bar at the top even if the screen is small” option in Social Fixer Options.
- Firefox: An “evalInSandbox” error was popping up for some users after Mozilla changed some of their internal Firefox code.
- Chrome: Changes in version 27 broke a number of features. Chat and “Disable Image Lightbox” are fixed. See below for some features which are still broken. Chrome 29 (Canary) broke a few more things and caused script errors to pop up, which are now fixed.
- Tab > Enter to Submit Comments: Added a checkbox to the blue button to disable this feature. Although this could always be disabled in Options, this shortcut will be easier for users to find.</ul>
- Notifications: Added a new “Notifications” item in the Option dialog’s left panel, where all the options related to Notifications are now stored. Added a new option to hide the notification “Beeper” box that appears in the lower left corner when a new notification comes in.