Discussions on scripts by Vaughan Chandler | Userscripts.org

Google Chrome 4.0.237.0, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:57:20 +0000

Does it not work at all for you, or is it just partially working?

Google Chrome 4.0.237.0, replied by Zane

Zane — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:42:24 +0000

Doesn't seem to work with Facebook Fixer

// ==UserScript==
// @name Facebook Fixer
// @namespace http://userscripts.org/people/14536
// @description Enhancements for Facebook: bigger profile pictures and photos, easier viewing of albums, links to download videos, showing people's age and sign, google calendar integration, keyboard shortcuts & more. Compatible with new Facebook and fully customizable!
// @include http://facebook.com/*
// @include http://*.facebook.com/*
// @include https://facebook.com/*
// @include https://*.facebook.com/*
// @exclude *facebook.com/logout.php*
// @exclude *facebook.com/*logged_out*
// @exclude *facebook.com/
// @author Vaughan Chandler
// @timestamp 1253160312705
// ==/UserScript==

Suggestion: stretch homepage to fill margins, replied by jsb

jsb — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:08:32 +0000

I checked and the HTML is identical in the two browsers. When I get some time, I will try debugging the script in Chrome.

Clicking twice on "next" to get to the next page in photos, replied by insurrectum

insurrectum — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:41:24 +0000

So another recent bug I've been seeing is that it takes two clicks on "next" to get it to move to the next page. The first click moves it slightly over, and the second actually gets you to the next page. The numbers work as usual, however.

Suggestion: stretch homepage to fill margins, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:51:57 +0000

Hmm... I wonder if Chrome is being served different HTML than Firefox for those links, cause the code for that is pretty simple. Next time you see one of those links in Chrome, can you check out the code used to make it? In Firefox theres a SPAN tag with a class name of "text_exposed_link" that the link is contained in, and the link has an "onclick" attribute set.

birthdays in bold, replied by hawacct

hawacct — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:31:21 +0000

Thanks for the reply! I'm using English in the US, no special settings that I'm aware of. It used to work but hasn't for awhile now. Any ideas?

Suggestion: Mark read, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:29:33 +0000

Hi jsb, apologies about the hide options for the live feed not working. I was debugging it and forgot to put it back. In the mean time you can change the relevant line (should be around line #1979) from:

for (var i=0; i<elms.snapshotLength; i++) { elms.snapshotItem(i).style.background='#cccccc'; }

to:

for (var i=0; i<elms.snapshotLength; i++) { elms.snapshotItem(i).parentNode.removeChild(elms.snapshotItem(i)); }

Or, wait a while and I'll upload the fix tonight.

As for the other problem, I think I might know why its not functioning as expected, so I'll look into that too.

Suggestions for improvements, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:24:08 +0000

Yeah, the spelling error was pointed out to me shortly after putting it up so I've fixed it for the next release. I also managed to misspell "notifications" a different way in in several parts of the code. I blame a lack of sleep :)

Suggestions for improvements, replied by jsb

jsb — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:19:31 +0000

Number of notifications in the page title bar is working great, but I noticed a spelling error in the settings option for this feature.

Suggestion: Mark read, replied by jsb

jsb — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:09:39 +0000

Vaughan, got the new 1.9b build, but this "mark read" doesn't seem to be working right. When I activate the option in the settings dialog, all of today's posts disappear, but I still see everything from yesterday back. I didn't expect anything to disappear until I clicked the "Mark All as Read" link. And I'm seeing newer posts disappear instead of older ones. When I click the "Mark All as Read" link nothing happens. I expected all posts to immediately disappear when I clicked this.

Also, selecting one of the other "Hide" options (such as "Hide friend stories in he live feed" is now putting them in a gray box instead of hiding them. In 1.9a this was hiding them correctly.

Suggestion: stretch homepage to fill margins, replied by jsb

jsb — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:03:31 +0000

Stretching and auto-clicking "read more" both seem to be working great on Firefox with GreaseMonkey. Unfortunately the "read more" links are not expanding in Google Chrome. I had not noticed any problems with previous features in Chrome.

Suggestion: Adjust Timeline Refresh Options, replied by hollz

hollz — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:03:16 +0000

Sometimes when I am typing a status update it takes more than a minute to write because of various distractions ect. And if it takes longer I lose the update when my timeline refreshes. I would love an option for every minute every two minutes or every five minutes....

Suggestions for improvements, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:53:46 +0000

A new test version has been released: http://www.code-poet.net/userscripts/beta.html

A list of changes can be found at that page. Feed back is greatly appreciated. The stable version should be released next week.

Suggestion: stretch homepage to fill margins, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:52:05 +0000

The latest test version (which can be found here) adds the ability to stretch the home page and auto click on "read more" links. (I only tested the "read more" feature with one link that I found, so let me know how it works)

Option "All" for a user's photo's not working?, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:48:49 +0000

Facebook has changed the way they load the images on those types of photo pages, and that change broke this feature in my script. I'm hoping I'll be able to have this feature fixed for next week's release.

Option "All" for a user's photo's not working?, replied by Balki Bartokomous

Balki Bartokomous — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:38:50 +0000

I too am having this problem.

Suggestions for improvements, replied by Balki Bartokomous

Balki Bartokomous — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:49:42 +0000

Could you also make it automatically switch to the live feed when FB loads. I hate having to click the live feed button myself EVERY DAMN TIME!

Thanks for responding to our requests! I look forward to the next version.

birthdays in bold, replied by Phill Moore

Phill Moore — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:35:32 +0000

yeah it stopped working for me when they did the update

Suggestions for improvements, replied by Phill Moore

Phill Moore — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:34:46 +0000

@ Vaughan no i dont care about the cleanliness of the link, i just find that it doesnt work properly...like ill try load a page, and it loads the outline of the page, but none of the data...so to fix that i have to click on my shortcut to facebook.com to get a clean start page, and go from there
its just a pain haha

birthdays in bold, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:52:57 +0000

Hi hawacct, this should be working still (it is for me). Currently there is no option for it because it is always on. What language are you using Facebook in? (If you're using English let me know whether its US or UK)

Is anybody else having a problem with this?

birthdays in bold, replied by hawacct

hawacct — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:30:09 +0000

I used to really love the feature that today's birthdays were shown in bold on the homepage, but it doesn't seem to be working for me in the latest version. Was this feature removed or is something wrong with my setup? I didn't see an option for it in the settings page.

Suggestions for improvements, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:55:32 +0000

Don't worry Dink, right now most of the requests are just being recorded and I've already started work on all the features I plan on adding to the next stable version, which hopefully will be released next week.

The ideas can keep coming since I'll always be keeping an eye on this thread.

Suggestions for improvements, replied by Dink

Dink — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:20:51 +0000

How about we all let Vaughan get the next stable release out before we throw too much more out at him. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of new features, But I know with Facebook changing up the code so often and every idea we come up with that he has alot on his plate!!! Sorry if i sound rude. I didn't mean to come across that way!

Suggestions for improvements, replied by Burgers nChips

Burgers nChips — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:08:36 +0000

Vaughan - Since I use Adblock Plus, I've added the lines

'#feedwall_with_composer{ width:720px; }'+ '#info_tab{ width:720px; }'



As lines 937 and 938 added to the addStyle function to make the profile pages the right width). If possible, could you make the script detect the use of an ad blocker and fix the widths?

Thanks again, BnC

Suggestion: stretch homepage to fill margins, replied by jsb

jsb — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:26:54 +0000

Vaughan - To test it, you could just post a long status to your own profile and then a really long comment under that. Just needs to be longer than about 300 characters (or I think 400 for comments). You could delete it when you're done. :)

Here's some sample text that should be long enough:
testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing