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Facebook social plugin
When coming across sites that use the facebook social plugin, as shown here:http://www.slate.com/id/2065896/view/2057067/
http://www.engadget.com/page/2/
The plugin or stream fails to load correctly (or something goes wrong) forcing the page, or elements in the page to constantly reload. It is very distracting. Are other people experiencing this same problem? And is the a current solution? I made a gif to demonstrate the problem.
Yes. This is hugely irritating. To block it, find your urlfilter.ini (it's in the Opera directory folder) and add these two lines:
(I'm not sure if both are required - it was originally in /plugins/, then reappeared in /widgets/).
Edit: Close Opera before editing the file.
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/activity.php* http://www.facebook.com/widgets/activity.php*
(I'm not sure if both are required - it was originally in /plugins/, then reappeared in /widgets/).
Edit: Close Opera before editing the file.
I had the same problem. The reason for this problem is that I have set Opera to only accept cookies from the site I visit, so when the facebook social plugin loads in a website from a domain different than that of facebook, it blocks the cookie. When I look at the traffic using the Network tab in Opera Dragonfly, I see constant requests for setting cookies originating from some facebook domains, and a reply that the request is being denied. This causes the frame with the javascript-loaded facebook content to be reloaded every half of a second.
A possible solution is to set facebook.com to accept all cookies, no only from the site I visit, by going to it's site preferences. That worked for me. But I'm more of a it's-better-to-block-more-than-to-block-less man, so I decided to add those two url's mentioned above to my blocked content list.
So that's that.
A possible solution is to set facebook.com to accept all cookies, no only from the site I visit, by going to it's site preferences. That worked for me. But I'm more of a it's-better-to-block-more-than-to-block-less man, so I decided to add those two url's mentioned above to my blocked content list.
So that's that.
I dedicated a post to this very problem on my blog: Opera: websites using Facebook Social Plugin keep loading
When trying to reproduce what I said in the post above, I could not make it "work" like I said by turning the cookies on. Is this a regression? Or is it just me testing it the wrong way? I'm not sure now.
When trying to reproduce what I said in the post above, I could not make it "work" like I said by turning the cookies on. Is this a regression? Or is it just me testing it the wrong way? I'm not sure now.