What's new in Social Fixer for Chrome 31.0.0

Aug 7, 2023
  • 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

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 30.0.0 (Mar 27, 2023)

  • 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 :

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 29.0.0 (Dec 31, 2022)

  • 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

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 27.0.0 (Apr 2, 2021)

  • Major Improvements:
  • Filtering fully works in the new layout
  • The Sponsored Posts filter hides all ads from the newsfeed
  • Marking posts as “read” works again!
  • Friend Manager updates and notifies correctly
  • Fixed “Force Most Recent” functionality so clicking Top Posts works and the Home links work as expected
  • New Feature: Improved highlighting and scrolling to comments when directly linked to a comment id (Options - Advanced)
  • Infinite Scroll prevention works to limit posts loaded in newsfeed
  • Hidden Messages notification links to correct URL to see hidden messages
  • Added “View Log” under the wrench menu to assist in debugging
  • Added “Debugger” under the wrench menu to assist in debugging
  • Minor Changes:
  • Wrench menu should never be lost off screen anymore
  • More readable filtering notifications when in Dark Mode
  • Internal Changes:
  • Improved performance
  • Removed old/dead code
  • Removed support for the original layout

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 26.0.0 (Sep 3, 2020)

  • Major Improvements:
  • Many changes to support Facebook’s “New Layout”:
  • Filters based on post text content work, including hiding Sponsored Posts and Politics
  • Auto-switch to Most Recent
  • Checking for Filtered Messages
  • Fix Enter in comments to be new line
  • Hide/Show parts of the page
  • Options menu has “verified” badges next to features that work
  • Added a link under the wrench menu to OldLayout.com to switch back to the old layout
  • Minor Changes:
  • Wrench should appear more quickly and reliably
  • Internal Changes:
  • Improved positioning and style of the “Submit Comment” button
  • Fixed layout of Available Display Tweaks table
  • Fixed Anonymize to apply to names which have been hovered
  • Fixed Anonymize to apply to accounts which are currently disabled
  • Fixed pasting filter definitions into ‘Advanced Code’ box
  • Fixed blank filter or tweak left by canceling ‘Create A New’
  • Ensure the wrench does not appear on the FB login page
  • “Fix post timestamps” option fixed after FB code change

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 22.0.0 (Jun 22, 2018)

  • Major Changes:
  • Fix “Enter in Comments” once again, after another FB code change
  • Friend Tracker Improvements
  • Added an ‘Okay All’ button
  • Notify about unfriends only after several absences (guarding against flaky FB data, friends who periodically suspend)
  • Separate options to notify about re-friends vs. unfriends
  • ‘Check for friend changes after this many hours’ setting wouldn’t save
  • Display alerts in reverse chronological order (of when Social Fixer noticed, NOT when actually unfriended – we cannot detect that)
  • Change some wording to avoid words ‘unfriend’ and ‘re-friend’
  • Improvements to Hide/Show Parts of the Page
  • Allow local debug hideable items to augment the subscription list
  • Added filtering by ‘Group Posted In’ and ‘Page Posted By’ types

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 21.1.0 (Nov 14, 2017)

  • Fixes In This Release:
  • Fix “Enter in Comments” after FB code change (PR#91, PR#92)
  • Prevent Notification Menu “Open in Popup” link from automatically showing its tooltip (PR#88)
  • Fixed clicking links in Notifications Popup so they don’t open in the popup itself

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 21.0.0 (Oct 3, 2017)

  • Fixes to Post Filtering and “Enter in Comments” functionality. Affected mostly Firefox 56 and other variations
  • NEW: Export/Import Social Fixer settings directly to/from files. Using the new “Save To File” and “Load From File” buttons, it’s now easier than ever to save a copy of your Social Fixer settings to your local drive for safe backup.
  • Fixed a missing message/link to “Filtered Messages” in the Messages dropdown
  • Fixed comment navigator bug (PR #86)
  • Fixed some of the links and functionality in the “Tips” section

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 20.0.0 (Jun 28, 2017)

  • Changes And Fixes In This Release:
  • Fixed: The option to make Enter add a new line in comments is back! Along with the fix is a fall-back mechanism, so if it stops working in the future it will revert to normal behavior and not prevent comments from being entered at all.
  • “Friend Manager” [Under the Wrench Menu]:
  • A new “Options” tab contains all of the options related to this feature
  • Separate options for being alerted of unfriending vs name changes so you only see what you’re interested in
  • “Unfriend” alerts now inform you when the account may just be temporarily unavailable rather than actually unfriended
  • The list of friend changes in the blue bar dropdown menu is now scrollable so it doesn’t stretch all the way to the bottom of the screen
  • The “Friends” tab is now paged to speed up the display if you have a lot of friends
  • Technical Changes:
  • Avoid using minified libraries to comply with Chrome extension policies
  • Fixed a bug in the “storage check” warning that sometimes resulted in a false positive and caused it to pop up frequently
  • Fixed: Greasemonkey on Firefox 55.0b1 failed to insert CSS, causing some features to not be visible
  • Change: Avoid => operator in javascript for Safari 9 compatibility

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 19.0 (Mar 13, 2017)

  • Social Fixer Version 19.0 finally brings back the Friend Tracker! Now known as “Friend Manager”, it adds more features like telling you when a friend changes their name. Included in this release are also a number of other fixes and features.

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 18.0 (Jan 22, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • “Show Photo Tags” [User Interface]: Display the auto-generated tag text that Facebook applies to pictures when you hover over them.
  • “Check For Filtered Messages” [General]: Facebook filters and hides messages it thinks are from people you don’t know - often in error. Social Fixer now alerts you when you have filtered messages
  • “Mark All Read”: Mark as read all posts above or below the selected post by holding Shift or Ctrl (Command on Mac) when clicking the “Mark Read” icon
  • “Short” Post Timestamps [General]: Optionally fix post timestamps and use a shorter format, like “12/31/2016 12:34:56 AM”
  • “Hide Most Recent switch messages” [Advanced]: When auto-switched to the Most Recent feed, disable the message ribbon saying you were switched
  • “Stealth Mode” [Wrench menu]: Once enabled, will now stay enabled after page reloads, until manually disabled
  • “Trending” tweaks: A “settings” link now appears in the Trending box, which shows controls to toggle Headline Summaries and Popularity Bars
  • Clear the red “Social Fixer Notification” # on the wrench with the new “clear” link in the menu
  • “Notification Popup” [User Interface]: Moved from the Experimental section, this feature creates a pop-out panel of your Notifications for easy access
  • Significant Fixes and Changes:
  • “Always Show Tab List” [Advanced]: Now makes the control panel and tab list appear even if filtering is disabled, so the “All Posts” count can be seen
  • “Storage Check” is now only run once a day, and should avoid false positives that have plagued some users
  • Filtering fix for filters based on specific Apps
  • Under The Hood / Technical Details:
  • Fixed timing issues that caused some features to fail occasionally
  • CSS Selector filters can now use :contains() to match text content of elements (for advanced users, to be used in the updated Sponsored Posts filter)
  • Allow custom hideables definition in Debug tab (only for advanced users)
  • Updated styles of Filter Condition rows for better display
  • Fixed a bug in removing leading | in filter regular expression, and automatically ignores ||
  • Fixes to auto-switch to most recent to handle more cases correctly
  • Force Post Action Icons to appear in the same place for every post, when hovering

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 12.0 (Oct 3, 2015)

  • What's Fixed / Changed:
  • Submitting comments is now better than ever! This update adds a “Submit comment” button you can click to post comments. You can also (optionally) use Ctrl+enter to submit, and Tab+Enter still works too.
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  • Image previews when hovering over thumbnails and profile pictures now works in most cases.
  • Security settings may cause some profile pictures to appear as the default FB Pic.
  • In some cases, image previews still don’t work, but I’m working on it.
  • Fixed the Messages dropdown so clicking a message doesn't open it in the chat window
  • Fixed the hiding of user information popup when hovering over user names
  • What’s Removed:
  • I disabled the comment “reply” feature completely until I can fix it. It is broken because of major code changes in the internals of Facebook. So far I haven’t been able to make it work with their new code.
  • Removed the Social Fixer News link and subscription. Facebook removed my list with over 2.4 million subscribers, without an explanation or even notifying me! My emails to them about this have gone unanswered. This is extremely frustrating.
  • Removed the "Automatically expand "SHOW X SIMILAR POSTS" links" option because it no longer applies and doesn’t do anything.

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 9.0 (Dec 30, 2013)

  • What's Fixed:
  • Recent Facebook code changes caused many key Social Fixer features to stop working for some users – mark posts as read, filtering, tabbing, etc. This version should resolve those problems for most users.
  • Filtering now works for text in the “tag line” like "X commented on this"
  • Comment counts were not being correctly calculated when "view X more comments" links existed
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  • What's New:
  • The wrench menu has been rearranged and divided into sections to make it clearer
  • New feature: Show “Hidden” Sections under the wrench menu shows parts of the screen that have been hidden by Social Fixer options.
  • A link to the blog has been added under the wrench menu. When a new blog post is detected, a link directly to it will be inserted, along with its title. A “1” indicator will be shown on the wrench menu when there is a new unseen blog post. An option in the “Advanced” tab has been added to disable this feature entirely (please don’t!)
  • What's Changed:
  • The functionality to auto-click older posts has been broken by Facebook and may not be fixable. I cannot figure out a way into their code. Yet.
  • Posts will be auto-loaded as you scroll down, as it is by default on Facebook. However, Social Fixer stops the auto-loading after 5 page loads, to prevent their code from going into an eternal loop and loading hundreds of pages worth of posts. This is a necessary trade-off, and to continue loading more you can just click ‘More Stories’.
  • For some reason, Facebook removes posts from the feed when it detects that you are not looking at them. For example, if you’ve loaded 100 posts but are at the top of your news feed, Facebook will silently remove 50 posts from the end of the feed. I don’t know why they do this, but it causes problems with Social Fixer because posts are not in the places they think they are (due to filtering and tabbing). So I have prevented this functionality to the best of my ability. But if you see posts randomly disappearing in front of your eyes, it means I have some more work to do.

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 8.0 (Nov 4, 2013)

  • What’s Removed:
  • Friend Tracker (Learn Why). As an alternative, check out http://who.deleted.me
  • Hiding Sponsored Posts (Learn Why). As an alternative, check out AdBlock Plus
  • What’s New:
  • Post processing (mark as read, etc) and Filtering can each now be separately enabled or disabled on the News Feed, Groups, and Pages/Timelines. These can be found in the “Posts” and “Filtering” tabs, respectively
  • imageA “Sort By Name” button is now inserted when viewing the Friends tab of a profile
  • New option in Advanced tab: “Position the wrench icon to the left rather than the right”
  • feature_hideMore things can be hidden by hovering over them and clicking the X that appears in the upper right corner: Trending box under Composer, Similar To [Page] dropdown when you Like a news feed post, Like Page button on News Feed, Birthday Reminders
  • What’s Fixed:
  • A Chrome bug caused people to lose their wrench icon entirely. A fix is in place to make Social Fixer usable when this happens (usually after a Windows system restore) but there are limitations
  • Some posts in Groups were hidden because they were being incorrectly flagged as duplicates
  • Clicking a notification about a comment or post in a Group would not go directly to the post
  • The “Social Fixer Message” box that I used occasionally for important messages couldn’t be closed with a “Close” button
  • Prevented the "Add App" button from appearing on posts which use Facebook's built-in apps like Status, Photos, etc
  • What’s Changed:
  • Changed the option to "Process posts on Group Walls" to disabled by default for new installs
  • Changed the default value for hiding "read" posts on timelines to FALSE
  • Filtering of groups is now DISABLED by default, but can be enabled in options

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 7.801 (Nov 4, 2013)

  • What's Changed:
  • The “More Stories” settings should now work correctly for everyone. The default behavior of loading more stories when you scroll to the bottom works like normal, except for when it detects an endless loading loop. In this case, a message will be displayed and loading will be paused. In case these options ever stop working correctly, a new option in the Advanced tab has been created to completely disable all fixes associated with More Stories. This is only for worst-case scenarios and shouldn’t be checked unless needed
  • New Option on the Popular tab: “Disable auto-refresh of the news feed to insert stories at the top”. If you’ve ever been annoyed at your feed jumping down because new stories were inserted at the top, this feature prevents that from happening
  • Fixed error messages in Safari 7
  • Fixed NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY error messages in Firefox 23+ that some users were experiencing
  • Fixed the option to mark application posts as read and open in a new tab when links are clicked
  • New option in the Advanced tab: “When clicking a notification about a group post, go directly to the post rather than the group feed.”
  • Added a help message that appears when posting to the Support Group, and enhanced the pinned post with custom styling to draw attention to it for new users
  • Fixed the “Save to Pocket” feature by making it open in a new window instead of an embedded window. This change was required due to a change in the Pocket website itself

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 7.711 (Nov 4, 2013)

  • What's Changed:
  • The following should now work for everyone
  • Auto-clicking the More Stories link to retrieve more pages (if enabled)
  • Scrolling down will load more posts automatically (unless disabled)
  • Manually clicking More Stories will work correctly
  • These features will also work correctly when viewing Lists
  • A few tweaks and improvements to the Anonymize feature
  • A fix for pressing in the Search field in Social Fixer Options

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 7.701 (Nov 4, 2013)

  • What's New:
  • Reinstated Timeline display options that were prematurely removed in last release
  • Auto-clicking of "More Stories" now works more reliably and has a new notification bar at the bottom of the feed, where you can also pause and resume
  • Improved the option to Anonymize the screen, including dummy names for users instead of "FBUser #1" and background colors to distinguish them. The colors can be disabled using a new option in the "Advanced" tab
  • New option: Hide the "tooltip" that pops up when you hover over the status update box or comments, sometimes hiding the view of the text you are typing
  • What's Fixed:
  • Automatic loading of posts when you scroll to the bottom works correctly
  • Fixed in Chrome: Auto-clicking "More Stories" and auto-switching to the Most Recent news feed view
  • Tagged posts could not be approved on Timeline Review
  • Fixed issue with blue header bar being really tall in some situations
  • Reduced the size of the "User Tab > Enter to Submit Comment" button
  • Image preview no longer shows when you are on the actual photo page (previously, it blocked the ability of some users to tag the photos, etc)
  • Hashtag formatting wasn't being applied to hashtags in comments
  • The "Save For Later" action wasn't grabbing the actual url, and was saving the Facebook post url instead

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 7.601 (Nov 4, 2013)

  • 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.
  • 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+.
  • 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.
  • 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.

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 6.7 (Jun 14, 2012)

  • New:
  • “Trending Videos” now hides along with “Trending Stories”
  • New option in the wrench dropdown menu: “Send Page Source (Debug)”. This will help in offering support by copying the entire page you are viewing to a place where I and the Support Team can inspect the page and see what you see.
  • Changed:
  • The link to submit post contents for support stopped working after the public service stopped working. I’ve replaced this with a new service.
  • Fixed:
  • Chat features stopped working after a Facebook code change.
  • “Trending Articles” stopped hiding for some users.
  • Hovering over square images in Timeline showed a square preview, rather than the full-sized picture.
  • Some games were cut off and unplayable when the options were set to enable SFX on apps pages and stretch wide.
  • The list of filters in Options->Filtering disappeared if you popped up Options more than once without refreshing.
  • When using “reply” to write comments and quoting the original comment, the reply box did not always expand to fit the reply contents.
  • The post icon to add a tab for an application stopped working correctly in some cases.
  • Images with spaces in the url did not preview correctly.
  • Post action icons were showing when re-positioning photos on Timeline pages. They are now hidden when re-positioning.
  • Custom post font size was not being applied to posts in Timeline
  • Auto-clicking of Older Posts was interfering with Timeline pages. This functionality has been disabled on Timeline pages.
  • Fixed CSS issues in Firefox that caused a flash of menus and other things before Social Fixer kicks in.
  • In some cases, Social Fixer was being executed twice in Firefox, causing several problems.

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 6.6 (Jun 14, 2012)

  • New:
  • imageA “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)
  • 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.
  • 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.

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 6.5 (Jun 14, 2012)

  • Since a lot of things were changed, updated, and fixed, I’m not going to list everything that was done. This is kind of a fresh start that restructures the underlying code in a new way, allowing me to move forward with more efficient development.
  • One of the big changes many of you may notice is that Social Fixer now runs faster, and themes will usually be applied before the page is rendered, so you won’t get that annoying flash of default Facebook Blue before the theme kicks in. Whether or not this works depends on your browser and some technical factors. It should work for most users.
  • This release also changes how Social Fixer checks for updates and other content from my site. It’s much more efficient and caches data more efficiently, reducing the load on my server and making the app more reliable for everyone. I hope this helps reduce the overload problems my server has had in the past.
  • A number of changes have been made to better support Timeline, now that it’s going to be mandatory for all pages as of tomorrow (supposedly). My support of Timeline continues to evolve and improve.
  • I’ve done extensive testing with number of testers on the Development Page for Social Fixer, and I believe I have resolved most problems. However, I know I haven’t hit everything. There will always be some quirks and bugs, because Facebook constantly changes their code. But this version should be much better than the previous one. Not perfect, but much better.

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 6.4 (Jun 14, 2012)

  • New:
  • 8399741729[1]Added a new “Timeline” tab in Social Fixer Options with several new options to customize display of Timeline pages. A small options panel will also appear on Timeline pages to allow quick changing of options (see right).
  • Added the ability to hide the new mini-footer in the right column by hovering over it and clicking the ‘x’.
  • New Option in the “Posts” tab: Automatically click the “Not Spam” link on comments marked as SPAM. This is a convenient way for Page owners who are the victim of Facebook’s over-zealous anti-spam feature, which often marks comments as SPAM which are not. This will automatically unmark all flagged comments (and mark them with a green left border), but then the Page owner needs to delete comments manually which actually are spam. (Most users will not need this feature, but some will find it useful!)
  • Posts can now be filtered based on their privacy setting using a text-based filter and matching on the following terms: “privacy:public”, “privacy:friends”, or “privacy:custom”. This is mostly for experienced users, who should know how this works!
  • Added “Hidden Chronicles” and “Mafia Wars 2” to the list of known Apps.
  • Changed:
  • Hovering over images on Timeline pages now shows previews correctly.
  • Added color-coding to the Friend Tracker – red if someone unfriends you, green if they re-friend you.
  • Friend Tracker now displays a message with a link to the FAQ if it’s stuck on “Loading” for more than 7 seconds.
  • Updated Firefox compatibility to 13.0a1
  • Fixed:
  • Facebook released a new photo viewer popup format. If the option was enabled to restore the comment button, it didn’t work in these popups so users could not comment on photos in the new popup.
  • Posts were sometimes being automatically marked as read when clicking on any link in the post, or randomly when new comments were dynamically inserted, if the option to “Automatically mark a post as read after commenting on it” option was enabled. A new, more reliable method of triggering this event is now being used.
  • When hovering over Notifications to see the preview, sometimes the “Loading” bubble would get stuck and remain visible on the page even after moving the cursor away from the Notification item.
  • Removing the last Filter and saving wouldn’t actually remove it.
  • When anonymizing the screen, sometimes user profile images would become abnormally large.
  • Improved positioning and style when Notifications are “pinned” to the right.
  • When offline, the Chat stub at the bottom would show “Chat (Offline)(0)” when chat options were enabled. Fixed to now show “(0)”.
  • Some users saw multiple “Add filter” buttons in the Filtering tab of Options.
  • When using Chat options to control the visible list of friends on chat, long lists didn’t have a scroll bar.
  • With the “Stretch wide” option enabled, Timeline pages would render incorrectly – either too narrow or too wide. Stretching to full width has been disabled on Timeline pages.

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 6.3 (Jun 14, 2012)

  • New:
  • Friend Tracker now reports when you’ve been re-friended by someone, after they’ve previously unfriended you, unblocked you, or restored their disabled profile.
  • When replying to Messages, pressing Tab from the message composer wouldn’t tab to the Reply button, to make Tab->Enter a quick send key combination. Social Fixer now forces this to work.
  • Changed:
  • When Social Fixer automatically switches you to the “Recent Stories First” view of your news feed, you will now see a message after the switch, with the option to hide the message.
  • Removed the option to manually sort the feed into chronological order, because there is now a chronological sort option built into Facebook.
  • The note shown when Friend Tracker finds an unfriend now has a link to the FAQ for an explanation, and can be dismissed permanently.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed some speed problems when typing comments – characters would appear very slowly.
  • Fixed a display quirk which caused the first post in a tabbed stream to squish to the right.
  • General performance improvements in rendering and post processing.
  • When “Automatically mark a post as ‘read’ after commenting on it ” was enabled, the comment count was not updated with the newly-added comment.
  • Some applications were no longer being tabbed after a Facebook change
  • Fixed “Change profile images in chat to names” after a Facebook change broke it
  • The option to float the control panel down the page when scrolling stopped positioning it correctly.
  • Some sections in the right panel (like “Sponsored”) were not collapsing correctly when clicked, and sometimes weren’t staying collapsed on reload.
  • With the “stretch wide” option enabled, the right sidebar (when visible) would cover up content on the right side of the news feed or in the blue header bar.
  • In some cases, posts with new comments were staying hidden rather than highlighting the new comments.
  • The “fix” for wheel scrolling in Ticker preview popups didn’t work correctly for people using Macs and the two-finger swipe. This “fix” has been removed until I can find a way around it.

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 6.22 (Jun 14, 2012)

  • New:
  • Notification previews are back! When hovering your mouse over most notifications, you will see a popup preview of what the notification is about.
  • When using the “Reply” link on comments, the user you are replying to will now be tagged and notified that they were mentioned in a comment. A new option in but the Options panel and below the comments box lets you turn off auto-tagging.
  • Added new story type: “Timeline changes” (type ID: 463)
  • New Option under “Layout” tab to hide Lists in the left Navigation pane
  • Change:
  • Added “Castleville” to the list of known apps.
  • Fixes:
  • Some users saw their chat list of online friends as blank if the “Show all online friends in chat list” option was enabled.
  • Fixed a problem that caused some pictures posted to Mobile Uploads to be hidden without being read.
  • Some stories were not staying marked as ‘read’ or ‘muted’ because of an internal bug.
  • Fixed: Error: m is undefined
  • The Setup Wizard was appearing on the login page and sometimes on other web sites where Facebook was embedded in an iframe.
  • Notifications pinned to the right sidebar or far right stopped working after a Facebook code change.
  • Improvements to the auto-clicking of Older Posts should help make it work more consistently.
  • Friends in the chat list were no longer in alphabetical order
  • The number of friends online in the “chat dock” was incorrect if you had the option enabled to hide mobile users.
  • The floating “Reply” box was sometimes positioned far away from the post being replied to, especially on Timeline posts.
  • In some cases, Social Fixer incorrectly counted the number of comments to a post, and kept showing that there were new comments
  • Changes for Timeline:
  • The recent introduction of Timeline profiles for all users left many people wondering what to do about, or frustrated that Social Fixer didn’t work just right with the new changes. Here are the changes (so far) I’ve incorporated for the Timeline release:
  • A Cover Photo couldn’t be selected
  • Friend Tracker is no longer added to Timeline pages because it displayed incorrectly

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 6.21 (Jun 14, 2012)

  • Changes;
  • The option to insert a character counter into post boxes has been default to off, since Facebook increased the limit to 63,302 characters now. It now counts up instead of down.
  • Updated Firefox Add-On compatibility to 11.0a1
  • Fixes:
  • Posts were shown not in chronological order, and often in reverse order
  • Fixed timestamps that no longer showed the full date and time after a Facebook code change.
  • “Hovercards” that appeared when hovering over a person’s name stopped hiding even with the option set
  • Some users saw apps not auto-tabbing in some cases
  • Filters based on story type were not being applied because Facebook removed the data to identify post types. I found a hack to identify story types in this case that appears to work, restoring post-type filtering.
  • Some stories would not stay hidden or muted, or in some cases they would hide from the news feed but not from profiles, etc. I have coded a new way to uniquely identify posts which will help eliminate this problem.

New in Social Fixer for Chrome 6.2 (Jun 14, 2012)

  • New:
  • New Option: “Force the news feed to switch to “Recent Stories First” if available“. Facebook recently re-introduced the option to sort the news feed into Most Recent posts first (chronological), but not every user sees it yet. For those that do, choosing Most Recent doesn’t always “stick”, forcing them to switch it back frequently. This option (enabled by default) forces the feed to Most Recent whenever Social Fixer detects that you are not using it.
  • Restored the option to lock the header, for those users who need it. Under “Popular”: “Lock the blue header bar at the top even if the screen is small”.
  • New option under Chat tab: “Hide “mobile” users from the chat list”. Previously, mobile users were always hidden.
  • Active chat users will now always be shown at the top of the list, and mobile users at the bottom (if they are shown).
  • Added more story types to the filter selection criteria, for posts having to do with Groups.
  • Changed:
  • Social Fixer is now disabled on apps.facebook.com by default. The option to disable while playing games has been changed to an option to enable it, and it is off by default.
  • Added text to the alert that appears after saving changes to options, to direct users to the preference to disable the alert.
  • Removed some apps from the auto-tabbing list, because they weren’t real “apps”.
  • Fixes:
  • Applications were not automatically tabbed for some users because of a Facebook code change.
  • When some users clicked ‘More Stories’ at the bottom of their feed, nothing would happen.
  • “Pagelet” boxes added by SFX were sometimes showing web server errors when the SocialFixer.com web site was too busy.
  • Options dialog didn’t fit on the smaller screens of some computers. It now dynamically sizes itself to fit.
  • Social Fixer was running and showing the Wizard even on the login page.
  • When using the option to “show all users in chat”, some users had a small blank chat window pop up when they click on a friend’s name.
  • When using the “popup window” list of friends on chat, and if you only had a few friends on chat, the window would seem to hover above the bottom of the page.