Dialog pops up to request permission for facebook status updates but allow button doesnt work

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. no ideas

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
click accept and dialog dissapears so that facebook can be updated

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Adam.Sidelsky@gmail.com on 13 Nov 2009 at 11:43

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I have the same problem too.  I am running Linux Firefox 3.5.5 with NoScript 
set to
"Allow all scripts globally (dangerous)"
I can click the Allow button, and it shows focus, but doesn't go anywhere.
Internet works well here but it is slow, I don't know if that could be the 
issue as well.

Original comment by kylehote...@gmail.com on 8 Dec 2009 at 5:17

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Log out of FB, pause and resume FireStatus.  When the login page appears in the
popup, check the "keep me logged into FireStatus" and all should be good from 
there
forward.  Cheers ;)

Original comment by liv...@gmail.com on 11 Dec 2009 at 6:31

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I tried livnah's workaround, but no luck. The prompt in question looks like 
this:

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Allow Status Updates from FireStatus?
FireStatus will be able to update your Facebook status on an ongoing basis.

You will be able to change this setting from the _Edit Applications_ Page.
[Allow Status Updates] or _Leave Application_
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Clicking on "Allow Status Updates" does nothing, and choosing "Leave 
Application" or
closing the prompt window just leads to a never-ending loop of this same prompt
popping up. (I had to force quit the browser to get it to stop.)

I'm using Firefox 3.5.6 on Mac OS X 10.5.8, and have disabled all other 
add-ons. I
tried setting cookie permissions to their most lax, just in case that was 
interfering
with login somehow, but that didn't seem to help either.

Original comment by micahtomblin on 16 Dec 2009 at 8:24

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I forgot to mention in the previous comment, I've tried both version 1.8.2 and 
1.8.1
of firestatus. Also, clicking the "FireStatus" or "Edit Applications" links in 
the
aforementioned prompt opens up a new blank window rather than going to the URLs 
expected.

Original comment by micahtomblin on 16 Dec 2009 at 8:38

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Although Christos is the author of all Facebook-related functionality and is 
best
positioned to debug this, you might want to try the latest nightly build I 
uploaded,
that has lots of work on Facebook in particular, like notifications for items 
in your
news feed. It would be good to know whether your problem persists in the latest 
code
base.

Original comment by past...@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2009 at 9:06

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Same problem here! :-(
I had installed version 1.8.2 and it worked. I installed the new version: 
"Nightly
build for 2009-12-17" and now it doesn't work with Facebook.
The worst is that Firestatus is in my Facebook profile and authorized to 
publish and
access my updates. Why it ask me then?
I uninstalled the new version and reinstalled the previous but now this does not
work... :-(
In addition, the authorization request window if you close it, it opens again 
in an
endless loop, unless you close your browser! :-(((

Original comment by simon@simonbcn.net on 17 Dec 2009 at 10:37

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Thanks for the reply, pastith. I tried the nightly and am still having the same
problem. In fact, it's gotten a bit worse. Before, it would only launch into the
prompt loop when trying to send a status. Now it seems to happen as soon as the
browser starts (provided that firestatus is enabled.)

Original comment by micahtomblin on 17 Dec 2009 at 1:40

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Hello everybody
The good news is that I managed to reproduce your problem (thus rendering my 
firefox
useless :-))

To disable facebook updates before starting firefox again, you have to edit the
prefs.js file in your firefox profile, find the line

user_pref("extensions.firestatus.facebookUpdatesEnabled", true);

and change it to false

user_pref("extensions.firestatus.facebookUpdatesEnabled", false);

Now you can start firefox again without the annoying facebook popup.

I don't have a solution for the problem yet, but now that I know how to 
reproduce it,
I will have something soon.
Thanks for you support.

Original comment by chstath on 18 Dec 2009 at 9:33

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chstath, why we would have to edit the file pref.js? It's a solution more 
complicated
that to disable "receive updates" from facebook in preferences of firestatus, 
no?

Original comment by simon@simonbcn.net on 19 Dec 2009 at 1:14

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I suppose it's a workaround for those who can't get to the preferences dialog 
due to the never-ending popups. If 
you can get to the preferences dialog you don't need this.

Original comment by past...@gmail.com on 19 Dec 2009 at 9:10

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Exactly. It is just a workaround in case you can't use firefox at all due to the
continuously popping window. If you can disable facebook notifications from the
firestatus preferences you don't need it.

On the actual problem now. I have found that facebook has extensively modified 
its
API and now uses facebook connect for user authentication and authorization from
desktop clients (like firestatus). So I have to change a lot of things :-)

Original comment by chstath on 19 Dec 2009 at 10:02

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Please, please, I need this plugin in Firefox T_T

Original comment by simon@simonbcn.net on 10 Jan 2010 at 12:42

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Nightly build 2010015 seems to solve the issue. Popups have been replaced by 
tabs and
it is ok now.

Original comment by chstath on 15 Jan 2010 at 9:58

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