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can not sign in online accounts with facebook

I tried to enter a new facebook account via gnome-control-center's "Online Accounts" but it doesn't work. When I click facebook, it shows a rotating icon then firefox opens and opens a page where ...
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Empathy doesn't connect to facebook accout

in System settings >> Online accounts when i add facebook account it redirects me to the browser and opens a webpage in the photo below and do nothing after that any help ??
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How do I set Facebook, Twitter and GMail accounts in the Ubuntu 13.04 online accounts?

Yesterday I updgraded my Ubuntu 12.10 to Ubuntu 13.04. I have apparently set my Twitter and my Google account (GMail, Google+, Google Docs, etc.) but I haven't could set my Facebook account. When I ...
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This website keeps coming up

I keep getting a facebook page come up in my browser. What's going on? I've searched for it on Google and people keep relating it to facebook app development. I work with python, html and BASIC. I ...
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How to connect Empathy to facebook

I am a new user of Ubuntu and I want to connect empathy internet messaging with Facebook. So when I select Facebook from the list given in Online Accounts a window opens up for me to authorize access ...
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Can't connect facebook to online accounts in 13.04

Just install 13.04 and am having trouble setting up online accounts with facebook. It opens up firefox and when I log in it comes up with a security warning. Any ideas why this is or what I could do ...
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Chrome-page automatically opens with Ubuntu facebook access

not sure it's a right place to ask, but all of you is my last hope. Chrome permanently (once per 5-15 minutes) opens a page with an attempt to access FB-account. The only content on the page is ...
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Using Shotwell with facebook: how do I upload cropped photos without distortion? [closed]

I use Shotwell to organize my photos, and do some simple post-processing - mostly cropping and/or straightening. I then use the built-in feature in Shotwell to upload photos to my Facebook account. ...
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Can't see wordpress's “recommend” on Facebook template in Chrome

A friend is helping us update our political group website. The thing is I asked him to add a recommend on Facebook and "Tweet" options so people can share the posts if they liked them. The problem ...
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Facebook notifications in Ubuntu 13.04 [closed]

Which apps will give me facebook notifications in Ubuntu 13.04
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How to retrieve old facebook/XMPP messages as well as new with kopete?

I have been considering using Kopete to use Facebook chat instead of logging on to Facebook with a web browser. That way I can integrate messages with my KDE desktop better. The problem is, when I ...
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Facebook icon not visible in envelope menu

On a clean 13.04 install, I have registered facebook in the online accounts, authorized facebook to allow ubuntu access, and installed the app. But still I am not getting the facebook shortcut icon ...
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Facebook Extension for Firefox

When I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10, upon starting up Firefox I was asked if I wanted to install the Facebook extension. I clicked yes, and it installed, and it shows up under Empathy Messenger when I ...
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No pictures in Facebook, problem in Pinterest [closed]

I am unable to view photos in facebook, but I can view videos. I am also experiencing problems with Pinterest loading the page, and when it does, I have issues with pinning things. Can anyone help me, ...
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I can't see all my Facebook friends in the Empathy Chat

I have just installed Ubuntu 13.04 and I connected Empathy with my Facebook account. It adds only a couple contacts, while I know that from the browser, many of my friends are online. How can I solve ...
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Empathy online contacts do not show up

The problem After upgrading from 12.10. to 13.04. empathy doesn't show online contacts anymore. All accounts seem to be affected by this (facebook, ICQ). Sporadically a contact is listed as online ...
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is there a way to use facebook on gwibber using https transport?

Today I configured for the first time gwibber on my ubuntu 12.04. Everything worked fine with twitter, but when I added my facebook credentials, I got no error messages but the account wasn't added. ...
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Pictures don't show up in Facebook if I use Ubuntu

A few days ago my browser(Firefox) has stopped loading images when using Facebook.com . I tried Google-chrome and it turned out that photos don't load up there too. However, The pictures show up ...
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How to integrate facebook video calls with pidgin or empathy?

I am using Ubuntu 12.10LTS and pidgin. I have also integrated skype with pidgin. I am searching any way to make video calls to my facebook friends.
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Online Accounts + Facebook + Issue [12.10 64bits]

As many of us, I also having some trouble to add the Facebook Account using "Online Accounts". I used some of answers I found here, doing that step-by-step: Log in the Facebook account, access My ...
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How do I prevent Unity from displaying my photos from Facebook and Google+?

The title pretty much says it all. I don't want to see my "friends'" pictures, if i don't want to. I tried to install unity-next following a tutorial from omgubuntu.co.uk, I removed all of its ...
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Is there an Facebook messenger app

I am looking for desktop application which for Facebook messenger. I know Pidgin can work with Facebook chat, but it cannot work with any messenger when from a person who is offline. Is there a ...
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Facebook chat not getting connected in Empathy

I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 for months now, and Empathy was working perfectly fine. Even Gwibber. But lately, these both have stopped working! The connection for Facebook chat is not getting ...
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Integrate Facebook messenger (not chat or facebook)

I have a problem. I do a lot of collaborative work at university, and the main method of communication (and most convenient) for students use is Facebook. I would love to integrate Facebook messages ...
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How to make the Facebook webapp work without keeping Firefox open?

I want to have notifications of Facebook on the envelop letter of Ununtu desktop (I know I'm not using the correct names, but I've been using Ubuntu since a week). I looked up for programs like ...
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I can't use my netbook webcam on facebook messenger [duplicate]

I can't use my webcam on a video conference on facebook, I have to install a program to do this.
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Unable to add Facebook account

Recently my Facebook account stopped working with Ubuntu. It was showing up as being unverified, and when I tried pressing the "Grant Access" button, it just opened up a page on Firefox that just ...
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Unable to Integrate Facebook in Ubuntu 12.10

Facebook was working fine as recently as a week ago. But for whatever reason, the online account for facebook had been deleted from my System Settings. When I try to re-integrate, a browser window ...
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Online accounts in 12.10 Facebook not working [closed]

I've added my Google, Twitter, and Windows Live accounts without any issues. However, when I try to add a Facebook account, instead of opening in the system dialogue for online accounts, it opens up ...
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Can't add Facebook in online accounts [closed]

I've successfully added Twitter, Flickr, and AIM accounts to Online Accounts but when I try to add Facebook, this is the scenario: Click Add account... Click Facebook Instead of opening in the box ...
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Gwibber facebook login (was virus facebook login)

every minute a google-chrome pages is open with this url https://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html#access_token=..... Where the token is my authentication token.. This is my ps aux ...
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Facebook issue in google chrome [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Google Chrome not rendering webpages correctly I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and Google Chrome version 23.0.1271.97. My Facebook chat bar is not rendering properly. When I ...
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Facebook doesn't work in ubuntu 12.10 [closed]

since two days I can't connect to facebook any more. All other pages work. I tried it from Firefox as well as from Chromium (both on ubuntu 12.10). The strange thing is, that it is working on Windows. ...
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Facebook not working on Ubuntu 12.04

Since last night Facebook is not working on Ubuntu 12.04. Every other web site is working. Also I booted Windows XP and Facebook worked there. I tried every browser I have on my PC (Chrome, Chromium, ...
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Words and hyperlinks only displayed on sites like facebook and youtube [closed]

Well, I installed the Ubuntu 12.10 in a netbook(use wi-fi internet) and now, some website dont load correctly, like facebook page, youtube or askubuntu page. I installed Adobeflash player plugin, ...
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How to remove leftover unity-webapps-facebookmessenger icons?

I have uninstalled unity-webapps-facebookmessenger but I have left over launcher icons in the dash and message menu. I have removed the facebook.com entry from allowed webapps domains in ...
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Intermitent Facebook connection on Empathy

I'm using Empathy on Ubuntu 12.04 (32 bits) to connect to "people near me", gtalk and facebook. I've been using it for about 2 weeks with no issues. Then suddenly today the facebook account started ...
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Facebook groupchat + empathy

I can't take part in a facebook group chat with Empathy. Do you know if there is a solution for this issue? Thanks a lot!
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Facebook font problem

I installed Wine HQ for Ubuntu. And then Ubuntu installed some Windows fonts like arial and e.t.c. After restarting computer I saw that Facebook font changed. How can I resolve it?
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How to get offline facebook messages in Pidgin 2.10.3

Some of my friends likes to be in offline mode in facebook but i still can continue chat inside FACEBOOK. When i tried chatting these friends via Pidgin 2.10.3, i am unable to get their messages while ...
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Prox* authentication issue with online accounts (12.10)

I want to use Ubuntu's online accounts feature to access my Facebook account. The thing is, my school has a proxy server you have to use to access https sites. So I configured my proxy settings ...
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Problem with Microsoft fonts and facebook

After I install Microsoft fonts, facebook font for the Persian content changes to Arial, which is a very bad font for Persian. This happens in both Chrome and Firefox. Here's the font family used by ...
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Gwibber only showing twitter not facebook in BUntu 12.10

I added facebook to gwibber and it was working fine.... however now that I added my twitter account I can only see twitter.... nit is not showing any facebook posts and I can not even see any way to ...
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How do I remove facebook from this menu?

I was on Facebook when Firefox asked me if I want to install facebook for "extra features" and I clicked "install" but now I want it gone. I can't seem to find any remove option in Software Center nor ...
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Facebook fonts look weird on 12.04

I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on this machine and noticed the fonts on facebook.com look very different from how they used to look on 10.04 or Windows. They seem to be smaller and "washed out" (hard ...
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Cant add facebook and twitter account in gwibber

when trying to add facebook account,im getting an error: an error occured while loading the authentication page but nothing appears on terminal and as same trying to twitter,this occurs on ...
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Remove facebook webapp integration in Quantal [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I remove a website from Ubuntu’s web applications? How can I remove the Facebook app that is displayed in Dash and in the Launcher? When I went to Facebook using ...
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Cannot authorise facebook with gwibber [duplicate]

I am running Ubuntu 12.04. I am fairly newbie so answers in words of one sylabel pls. When trying to add facebook to gwibber I get the following message.Any ideas pls. twitter works fine. Unable to ...
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empathy can't connect to facebook chat

I am using ubuntu 12.10, and when I try to connect to my Facebook account through Empathy, it gets disconnected and says this account is already connected to the server.
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No facebook through gwibber?

When I click authorise for Facebook, nothing but a blank window stares at me. What to do?

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