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I have both operating systems installed on my PC, but Facebook only works on XP.

I have tried Firefox and Chromium, but it works the first time, but after I log in it doesn't work, and can only open the main window again after I clean up the cache.

Any ideas?

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  • What do you mean by does not work?
    – qbi
    Apr 12, 2011 at 6:07

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"I discovered it was a problem with the MTU (maximum transmission unit), wish says the largest protocol data unit that the layer can pass onwards.

I found the answer here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1376506

Hope this help others"

This helped me:

sudo ifconfig eth0 mtu 1492

ifconfig | grep MTU

Where eth0 is the type of connection that you have, and can vary from person to person.

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  • In my case, the command for change MTU correct the problem. sudo ifconfig wlan0 mtu 1492 Why?
    – ePhillipe
    Jun 10, 2012 at 17:40
  • What the hell, I spent a year searching for this problem. This was problem only with a combination of some linux distributions and a home router. Every other combination of every other OS and every other router was working normally. And today I found this post and I would give you a thousands of votes up, if I could. Thank you.
    – kv1dr
    Nov 27, 2013 at 15:38
  • That's really difficult to find out, because of that issue it was impossible for me to use Trello.com . Thank you! Oct 14, 2014 at 8:26
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In my case, the command needed for a wireless connection works with:

sudo ifconfig wlan0 mtu 1492

:)

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Make sure you are not accidentally still logged in to the account with the MS Windows session. Uncheck the checkmark that says to keep you logged in when you log into Facebook. It won't work when you use Ubuntu, because the account is being used. I have come across this many times when setting up Yahoo accounts, Facebook, etc.

I have never adjusted the MTU, it has worked just fine with the default settings...and I have set up hundreds of dual boot, and Ubuntu Only systems over the years, so that is something new and strange that Facebook would not work in Ubuntu straight out of the box. :-)

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    That sounds like nonsense to me; I'm often signed in with several devices at the same time and it has never been a problem.
    – oKtosiTe
    Apr 24, 2011 at 9:02
  • I revised my statement to make it clearer.
    – Merlin2525
    Apr 24, 2011 at 12:43
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I think there's a problem with the permissions of your cache directory.

  1. Create a directory named cache in your home folder:

    mkdir ~/cache
    
  2. Start Chromium with --disk-cache-dir:

    chromium-browser --disk-cache-dir ~/cache
    
  3. Try to load Facebook.

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