Firefox/Facebook problem...

[brewerpaul]

I've been using Firefox for several years now, and been on Facebook for at least a year using Firefox.
Today when I clicked on my Facebook bookmark, it asked me to sign in which was odd since I had checked the "keep me logged in" box ages ago. When I got to the homepage, my profile picture was gone, and so were all of my friends. There were several friend requests from people who were already my friends so I confirmed those, and now they're still the only friends showing. I logged out, logged back in, closed Facebook and Firefox, restarted my computer, but no luck.
Now for the weird part-- on my iPod Touch and on Windows Explorer, all of my usual Facebook stuff is intact (which makes sense since that's all stored on their server, right?). So why is Firefox giving me a hard time? I tried their Help database, but no luck there either.

[Denny]

when odd things happen I usually delete all of the site's cookies for starters

Tools/Options/Privacy(tab)
Change to (if not already) Firefox will: Use custom settings for history
Click Show cookies...
Scroll to Facebook
select the Facebook cookies
click Remove Cookies
close the muck w/cookies window and cancel the Options window (what saves ya from having to put the Firefix will: back to what it was so that you can save not having changed anything)

If you have more that one email account verify which one yer using for Facebook.
Try logging on again.

looks like yer there from here

[emmline]

Facebook is weird. Really weird. It has its own little set of wormholes, far as I can tell. Every so often you fall in one, but eventually you usually fall back out.

[s1m0n]

I've had facebook messages suddenly reappear out of wormholes and arrive six or more months after they were sent.

[Innocent Bystander]

What Em said. (Seconded.) FB does weird things on Chrome, too.

[brewerpaul]

Fixed...the one thing I hadn't tried was logging out of my account then logging back in. Did the trick!

[Innocent Bystander]

Fixed...the one thing I hadn't tried was logging out of my account then logging back in. Did the trick!

...ah. The old "I've only been logged in for 57 days continuously and I get all these problems" situation, eh?

[brewerpaul]

Fixed...the one thing I hadn't tried was logging out of my account then logging back in. Did the trick!

...ah. The old "I've only been logged in for 57 days continuously and I get all these problems" situation, eh?

Yeah.... who knew?
Not me, apparently...

[MusicalADD]

Probably not related to Paul's issue, but FWIW, something I've noticed:

The Firefox plug-in, FlashBlock, seems to interfere with some Facebook actions. Click the Submit button, and nothing happens. Disabling Flashblock seems to fix the problem. Perhaps Flashblock has a whitelist I could use to work around this problem, hmmm...

[Denny]

I've experienced the problem, I don't have flash block

I just close the tab and reopen Facebook to fix it