This is a small abuse of the blog for purposes of personal mental hygeine, but…..
As part of its campaign to take over the world, Facebook has persuaded more and more sites to install its social networking widget. Unfortunately, beginning on Saturday, it started driving my browser nuts. I finally figured out how to uninstall it on the Washington Post front page, but since then I’ve noticed half a dozen other sites using it too. Every one of them sends my browser into overdrive, refreshing manically two or three times a second as it tries to figure out what the latest news from all my Facebook buddies is.
Of course, it’s only a problem on Opera. Firefox and Explorer work fine. Sigh. Which means no one cares. But maybe someone does! Anyone else having this problem? After a bit of trial and error I’ve blocked *facebook.com/plugins* and this seems to mostly fix the problem, but I know deep in my heart that it’s going to end up causing some kind of unforeseen massive system failure in the future. It always does. Anyone have any advice about how to fix this for real?
