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Have you been getting an endlessly spinning blue ball when you visit Facebook using Firefox? I recently found out why and found a temporary workaround for the problem. The explanation and instructions for implementing a workaround are below. (Of course, if you find this too technical to do yourself and would prefer to have me do this for you, please contact me).<\/p>\n
Facebook changed its code and is now not supporting web browsers that are non-webkit compliant. Every web browser reports to a website what type of browser is running and the website can chose what and how data is sent back. The ID for the browser is called the “UserAgent string”. If your UserAgent string reports a non-webkit browser, you get served by Facebook a page with coding errors that show a blue spinning wheel, ball or ring. You might see the error message “inline cursor: pointer never removed from document Element, persistent cursor: progress<\/em>“, or you might just see the spinning blue ball.<\/span><\/p>\n FOR PC USERS—> Here are your options:<\/p>\n If you choose the last option above, as I did, here is how:<\/p>\n First, install both of these Add-ons: Restart Firefox > Goto Tools > UAControl Options > It is recommended to remove the custom string when Firefox is updated to be webkit compliant or if Facebook changes their site\u2019s coding again.<\/p>\n FOR MAC USERS—> Here are your options:<\/p>\n If you choose the last option above, as I did, here is how:<\/p>\n First, install both of these Add-ons: (You will have to restart Firefox to finish installing one or both).<\/p>\n Once you have them installed, go to Tools\/Add-ons\/Extensions – then on the UAControl preferences add www.facebook.com at the top of the window, click Custom and paste this string into the Custom field: Click Okay at bottom right and restart Firefox again.<\/p>\n NOTE: Whether you are using a PC or a Mac, it is recommended to remove the custom string when Firefox is updated to be webkit compliant or if Facebook changes their site\u2019s coding again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n UPDATE: As of July 10, 2015, it looks like either Facebook or Firefox have modified their coding, so the problem seems to have been resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you been getting an endlessly spinning blue ball when you visit Facebook using Firefox? I recently found out why and found a temporary workaround for the problem. The explanation and instructions for implementing a workaround are below. (Of course, … Continue reading \n\n
\nhttps:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-us\/firefox\/addon\/uacontrol\/<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/\u2026\/fi\u2026\/addon\/user-agent-js-fixer\/\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAdd Site > Site: www.facebook.com > Select Custom > Paste this string into the Custom field:
\nMozilla\/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit\/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/10.0.648.151 Safari\/534.16<\/em><\/p>\n\n
\nhttps:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-us\/firefox\/addon\/user-agent-js-fixer\/?src=search<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-us\/firefox\/addon\/uacontrol\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMozilla\/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/33.0.1750.166 Safari\/537.36 OPR\/20.0.1396.73172<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n