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I just installed this, and it doesn't seem to be working correctly. I add in a filter, it shows up in the list, and then when I reload my home page nothing is shown as a filter at all. It also won't stay collapsed when I reload.

My filtered words were being saved, but not the filter options. I checked the cookies and saw that the filter options cookie was a session cookie, unlike the one for filtered words. I edited the script to make it set that cookie with the same expiration time as the others. Is the difference intentional, or is this a bug?

My settings & filters are not getting saved either. I'm on Windows 7 Professional (32-bit) running Firefox 3.6.13.

I did have a lot of other add-ons that could have interfered (Permit Cookies (Twitter cookies are kept), BetterPrivacy, AdBlock (disabled when I'm on Twitter), NoScript (all permitted on Twitter)) and another GM script that could have interfered (I have deleted that one).

I deleted all my cookies, quit Firefox, re-launched it, went directly to Twitter, set all my settings and filters and looked at the cookies I had: twitter.com & api.twitter.com; no Flash cookies.

Where exactly are the Tweetfilter settings getting saved?

Okay... I'm seeing:

tweetfilter.filter.options="{"global-hide-topbar":f...:true,"dashboard":true}", tweetfilter.filter.words="[]", :USER:="{"Twitter_name":{"value":{...6576}}},"expire":null}}"

Why is this lost when I close Firefox?

(I've replaced my actual Twitter user name with "Twitter_name")

I just closed Firefox, relaunched it, and went to Twitter. I started the Firebug console and typed in "localStorage".

I'm sorry, I'm unfamiliar with Firebug and didn't know I could expand the field to get all the information.

So when I relaunched Firefox, all my settings were gone. Firebug's console said:

"{"global-hide-topbar":false,"dashboard-hide-detail":false,"dashboard-hide-wtf":false,"dashboard-hide-trends":false,"dashboard-hide-ad":true,"dashboard-hide-options":false,"dashboard-filter-collapsed":true,"dashboard-fixed":false,"stream-filter-disabled":false,"stream-filter-media":false,"stream-filter-me":false,"stream-filter-invert":false,"stream-filter-replies":false,"stream-filter-retweets":false,"stream-expand-new":true,"stream-highlight-replies":true}"

So I add checkmarks to all the Twitter-UI options except the last two and now I get:

"{"global-hide-topbar":false,"dashboard-hide-detail":true,"dashboard-hide-wtf":true,"dashboard-hide-trends":true,"dashboard-hide-ad":true,"dashboard-hide-options":false,"dashboard-filter-collapsed":false,"dashboard-fixed":true,"stream-filter-disabled":false,"stream-filter-media":false,"stream-filter-me":false,"stream-filter-invert":false,"stream-filter-replies":false,"stream-filter-retweets":false,"stream-expand-new":true,"stream-highlight-replies":true}"

I need a button that says "save settings"! ;-)

I installed it. I logged out of Twitter and logged back in and it worked. But then I logged off from Twitter again, rebooted, and although Tweetfilter is installed and I've moved it to the top of the list, it's not loading at all. Logging out of Twitter and back in twice and it's not loading at all.

Now I'm seeing "1 Error" in the Firebug console: "twttr.currentUser is undefined" line 14.

Edit: I've uninstalled the script and re-installed it. After reloading the Twitter page, it works. Now the test: quit Firefox and re-launch it. Will my settings still be there?

Edit 2: Nope. All my settings and filters are gone. :-(

Edit 3: I disabled all the add-ons I have that might have interfered (Flashblock, NoScript and Permit Cookies), exited Firefox, relaunched it, went to Twitter and logged in, set the Tweetfilter settings, logged out of Twitter, quit Firefox, re-launched it, went back to Twitter, logged in, and the Tweetfilter settings are gone.

At this point, I don't know what else to try.

Okay. It worked. I have some misbehaving add-on or a setting somewhere that zaps the local storage. Damn.

Thank you, though. :-)

It's a great script and I hope I can figure out where the problem is.

I wasn't sure I was in the mood to fiddle with this tonight, but curiosity got the best of me.

It's the BetterPrivacy add-on that's the problem. It's supposed to delete Flash cookies (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/.... But it also deletes Local Shared Objects and DOM Storage objects. I'm just not sure how to exclude the data from Tweetfilter specifically.

Thank you again.