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In about:config, are there any friends listed under the 123456789 friends value (where 123456789 is your Facebook ID)? If so, is every one of your friends listed there (I believe they'll be in alphabetical order by forename)?

Also when testing are you definitely leaving sufficient time between removing the friend and checking to see if that friend shows? You must leave at least 2 hours between this.

adamflip wrote:
friends has the entries of many of my friends (not sure if all?)

Ok, I will give you a quicker way of finding how many are in that list when I get home (I'm at work at the moment and I don't use my scripts here).

all i have to do for the script to 'work' is have lost a friend more than 2 hours ago (i have changed to 1 hour, for the record) and then go to www.facebook.com, right?

Yeah, that is the theory. After this time, when the page on Facebook reloads -- and it doesn't often reload due to all of the AJAX (hitting refresh for example reloads the page, clicking most links in Facebook will effectively just remove the content and put in the contents of whatever you clicked on) -- then it should check again. You need to be logged on also for this to work. If you look in about:config you can see the last time that it successfully checked your friends list, so if a friend was removed before that time it should alert you about it then.

Ok, to find the number of friends stored do this; go to about:config, double click the value with your friends in and copy it. Then type this in your address bar (hitting paste where I have written PASTE);

javascript:foo=PASTE;cnt=0;for(i in foo)cnt++;alert(cnt);

Hit enter and you should then get a message telling you the total number of your stored friends plus your pending friend requests. If this value is correct then I can see absolutely no reason why deleted friends will not show up for you.

Well I don't know quite what to suggest. From what you've said it sounds like the script is working fine at the moment, and whilst I can't replicate any problem and I can't see any holes in my logic I don't see there's much I can do.

No one else has complained of any problems since my last update (indeed, no one has also said that it works well but I've found that a massive majority of the users on this site are very quiet until something goes wrong so I assume no news is good news), so I'm going to propose that maybe something erred on your end for some reason, but I would hope that this won't happen again. If you're hugely bothered to know which of your friends deletes you in the future, you could always save a copy of your friends list now and compare it to the new list if the script fails for you again.