Release Notes

Social Fixer 31.0: Changes

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Social Fixer Version 31.0 Release Notes

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Important Changes

This is a maintenance release with fixes for the following:

  • Sponsored Posts filter
  • Friend Manager
  • Unread Hidden Messages
  • General filtering bugs
  • A few other tweaks

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/

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Matt Kruse, developer of Social Fixer

Social Fixer 30.0: Fixes and Improvements

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Social Fixer Version 30.0 Release Notes

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Important Changes

  • Added support for FB’s new post comments popup
  • Adapted Expand Comments to automatically continue within the post comments popup
  • Fixed ‘Fix Enter’ in the post comments popup
  • Fixed an issue causing a blue bar or large blue-and-white band over the page
  • Fixed an issue which made many features fail on all browsers on Mac OS: Post filtering, Post Action Icons, mark ‘Read’, and Infinite Scroll Prevention

New Features

  • Expand Comments now works in the comment viewer popup
  • Expand Comments now works in the ‘theater mode’ side column

Internal/Minor Changes

  • Fixed certain posts being hidden when opened from a notification
  • Fixed certain posts being hidden when opened in a comments popup
  • Fixed ‘ghost popup’ left when marking post ‘Read’ in comments popup
  • Fixed a case where Expand Comments would mistakenly hide all comments
  • Further improved post ID detection
  • Fixed a situation where a group ID could be picked up as a post ID
  • Improved permalink detection & logging
  • Added handling of ‘reels’ single-post pages
  • Fixed a case where filters would miss post text contents
  • Fixed post filtering on ‘App/Game Name’ field after a FB change
  • Fixed post filtering missing some post text content
  • Improved debug messages about why filtering was not run
  • Made ‘post-funnel’ menu appear even when filtering is disabled
  • Fixed another way for the wrench to get lost
  • Fixed multiple Post Action Icons trays appearing at once
  • Fixed ‘Reset All Data’ failing to reset some settings
  • Fixed a condition where ‘Fix Enter’ could fail in chat
  • Fixed spurious Submit Comment button when input was empty
  • Fixed expansion of ${array:width:joiner} to allow joiners other than :

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/

Do you like what you see? Please, Donate to support development!

Matt Kruse, developer of Social Fixer

Social Fixer 29.0: Fixes and Improvements

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Social Fixer Version 29.0 Release Notes

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Important Changes

  • Fixed hiding of Sponsored Posts for most users
  • Improved ability to mark different types of posts ‘Read’, including events, Marketplace items, Sponsored, fundraiser donations, and cover photo updates
  • Fixed Wrench menu and Control Panel disappearring
  • Fixed wrench menu notification counts
  • Improved Hide/Show performance and functionality
  • Added back ‘Open Messages In Full Tab’ feature
  • Fixed ‘Check For Filtered Messages’ feature on most browsers

New Features

  • Added a master font size option
  • Added a master Social Fixer user interface scale option
  • Filters can now have separate ‘click to hide’ and ‘click to show’ messages
  • Added ‘Any Hashtag’ filter search type
  • Added initial support for Facebook Marketplace item ‘posts’

Internal/Minor Changes

  • Improved reliability of Infinite Scroll Prevention
  • Improved performance and reliability of Comment Navigator / Expand Comments
  • Added a ‘words to avoid clicking’ list for Expand Comments
  • Added control over when Expand Comments action window closes
  • Improved detection of Sponsored posts
  • Fixed ‘Link URL’ & ‘Link Text’ filter search types
  • Fixed ‘Group Posted In’ filter search type
  • Fixed ‘Page Posted By’ filter search type
  • Fixed ‘Post Action’ filter search type
  • Fixed / brought back ‘App/Game Name’ filter search type
  • Fixed ‘Author’ filter search type on some page types where it didn’t work
  • Fixed post filtering unintentionally matching some post comments
  • Filter matches are now tested against each instance of some search fields: ‘Any Hashtag’, ‘Link URL’, ‘Link Text’, ‘Photo Caption’; so ‘Any Hashtag’ ‘Equals Exactly’ ‘sfx_rocks’ matches ‘#hello #sfx_rocks #there’
  • Made ‘NOT’ able to be applied to all filter search types
  • Added support for plain string searches to existing string filters
  • Added control of ignore case / Match Case to all string filters
  • Added filter actions allowing to mark or unmark posts ‘Read’
  • Added filter action allowing to unhide posts (to override a prior filter)
  • Fixed post filtering ‘replace’ action to work on post author name
  • Fixed post filtering ‘replace’ action to work on post ‘action’
  • Added filter field expansion ${any} to insert the first parenthetical match
  • Added filter field expansion ${all} to insert all parenthetical matches
  • Added expansion joiner for ${all}: ${all:15:/} might emit ‘match1/match2/m’
  • Fixed a problem when a filter tried to hide the first post on the page
  • Fixed a problem which caused some posts to not be filtered at all
  • Changed permalink filtering: filters run as normal, but ‘hide’ won’t hide
  • Fixed an issue with stray Post Action Icon filter & wrench menus appearing
  • Added start times to post postdata & filter logs
  • Added all searchable post fields to Filter Debugger output
  • Fixed various issues with post tabs
  • Added attempt to ‘seek’ the right 1st tab to view, when filters move posts
  • Added logging of various post state transitions in Post Data: being marked or unmarked ‘Read’; hidden, moved or copied by filters
  • Added identification of extension ‘store’ and ID to Support data
  • Fixed ‘Redirect Home Links’ to act only on left-click
  • Made ‘Force Most Recent’ allow other feeds like ‘Top Stories’, ‘Favorites’
  • Made ‘Show Photo Tags’ feature work on non-English Facebook user interface
  • Made wrench menu put itself away when hit ESC
  • Made wrench menu appear earlier during page startup
  • Reduced impact when disabled via wrench menu
  • Made extension manager’s Options button work when disabled via wrench menu
  • Fixed top bar layout problem in RTL locales
  • Fixed ‘Fix Enter’ feature on chat / messenger after Facebook code change
  • Repaired ‘Fix Enter’s ability to label its buttons ‘Comment’ vs ‘Reply’
  • Improved ‘Fix Enter’ interaction with ‘Today’s Birthdays’ page
  • Improved ‘Fix Enter’ to remove its buttons when no longer needed
  • Made ‘Fix Enter’ alternate / emergency mode work in more situations
  • Updated to use newer Promise-based Userscript API
  • Added support (Userscript only) for messenger.com, mainly for ‘Fix Enter’
  • Fixed Userscript startup issues with Greasemonkey
  • Userscript tested on Firemonkey Userscript manager for Firefox
  • Reduced the probability & impact of any future ‘date blobs’ issues
  • Reduced the impact of Scroll To Comment when its CSS is empty
  • ‘mark Read’ will by default remember post IDs for 28 days (up from 4)
  • Changed to force only the ‘Read’ posts named in a permalink to be visible
  • Added the ability to hide ‘Read’ posts which are visible due to a permalink
  • Added an option to style posts clicked visible after hidden by a filter
  • Fixed subscribed filters & tweaks showing ‘updated’ when they didn’t change
  • Improved error handling when loading subscription data from SFx servers
  • Improved error handling when loading user saved settings

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/

Do you like what you see? Please, Donate to support development!

Matt Kruse, developer of Social Fixer