Facebook Has Problems With Latest Release

Facebook released a new version of their site code in the past few days and it has been causing some problems. A number of people contacted me regarding issues they were having. One person in particular had problems with CSS files not being accessed properly and as a result pages were breaking. Another person contacted me to alert me to cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities in the current version of their code.

While I don’t know all the details behind cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities, I do know that it tends to be a popular method for hackers trying to maliciously access websites. As of yet I’m not sure if the vulnerability has been resolved but the new version clearly has some issues. These types of issues have frequently arisen previously and Facebook has typically been quick to respond. This is just part of running a large site.

It would be great if Facebook gave a more thorough browser test as well as security test on their staging server. Then again, when your site is being accessed by millions of users on a daily basis, something is bound to go wrong that you couldn’t have even tested for. Have you been having problems over the past few days with accessing Facebook? 0

 



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I havent had any rendering issues but this morning I could not login…then I saw an email from the facebook saying my password was no longer secure and I would need to create a new one. I didnt know what was up, but a few coworkers have had the same issue this morning…I wonder if it is all related?

Yeah, I have had a similar problelm as Andrew in that I haven’t been able to log in. I am having further problems in that when I try to reset my password, it emails my now defunct college email… Lame.

I havent had any rendering issues but this morning I could not login…then I saw an email from the facebook saying my password was no longer secure and I would need to create a new one. I didnt know what was up, but a few coworkers have had the same issue this morning…I wonder if it is all related?

Andrew, your account was probably phished, Facebook resets passwords when this is detected and removes spam sent from your account.

Yeah, I have had a similar problelm as Andrew in that I haven’t been able to log in. I am having further problems in that when I try to reset my password, it emails my now defunct college email… Lame.

Andrew, your account was probably phished, Facebook resets passwords when this is detected and removes spam sent from your account.

My wife probably had the CSS problem last night — she remarked to me that she was seeing screen elements overlapping strangely…

Where to start!

Facebook completely broke all CSS for 20 minues site wide last week.

Then they have some servers that are mangling the CSS (this happened for 18 hours site wide last Friday, but is now intermittent)

Currently I’m seeing them try to scroll the Invite form into view. I have one page with the invite form at the bottom, and it scrolls that page so the user can see it (Forced Invite anyone?)

My wife probably had the CSS problem last night — she remarked to me that she was seeing screen elements overlapping strangely…

Where to start!

Facebook completely broke all CSS for 20 minues site wide last week.

Then they have some servers that are mangling the CSS (this happened for 18 hours site wide last Friday, but is now intermittent)

Currently I’m seeing them try to scroll the Invite form into view. I have one page with the invite form at the bottom, and it scrolls that page so the user can see it (Forced Invite anyone?)

Identikit Drone #3245 - June 6th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

“Another person contacted me to alert me to cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities in the current version of their code.”

I would like to know more about this from a technical standpoint. I may be wrong here, but aren’t most FB apps hosted on 3rd party servers? (I’m just starting to study FB myself, so I am new to the conversation) ie. servers owned by the developers of the app? Wouldn’t it be prudent to allow certain amounts of cross site scripting in the first place and then limit access to the server to such scripts via the servers own configuration files?

If users are complaining about scripting vulnerabilities shouldn’t they first look at their server configuration? Well, that depends on the nature of the bug. Who are these people and can you provide a reference for their concern? I would love to check this out in more technical detail.

Identikit Drone #3245 - June 6th, 2008 at 6:09 pm

“Another person contacted me to alert me to cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities in the current version of their code.”

I would like to know more about this from a technical standpoint. I may be wrong here, but aren’t most FB apps hosted on 3rd party servers? (I’m just starting to study FB myself, so I am new to the conversation) ie. servers owned by the developers of the app? Wouldn’t it be prudent to allow certain amounts of cross site scripting in the first place and then limit access to the server to such scripts via the servers own configuration files?

If users are complaining about scripting vulnerabilities shouldn’t they first look at their server configuration? Well, that depends on the nature of the bug. Who are these people and can you provide a reference for their concern? I would love to check this out in more technical detail.

I can log in to facebook but the pages are not loading properly, they take ages to load then when they are done, it doesn’t look at all like the normal pages do, it is all spaced out and simplifyed, it’s been like that for 2 days now.

I can log in to facebook but the pages are not loading properly, they take ages to load then when they are done, it doesn’t look at all like the normal pages do, it is all spaced out and simplifyed, it’s been like that for 2 days now.

ok, does anyone know how to get the CSS to start working??? Cause everytime I go to facebook the page is all messed up, and no images load, also it says Javascript is disabled;well its not…….. anyways when I go on firefox and I use the web developer application; while on the facebook page, I look under CSS and it says that all of the CSS is disabled, so I enable them all and refresh the page, but it all goes back to “messed up mode”, anyone got any solutions?????

ok, does anyone know how to get the CSS to start working??? Cause everytime I go to facebook the page is all messed up, and no images load, also it says Javascript is disabled;well its not…….. anyways when I go on firefox and I use the web developer application; while on the facebook page, I look under CSS and it says that all of the CSS is disabled, so I enable them all and refresh the page, but it all goes back to “messed up mode”, anyone got any solutions?????

Whenever I even try to get to facebook (ie, type in http://www.facebook.com into my browser window), I get automatically redirected to http://www.mtnl.com. What’s up with that?? And if I try to get around it by typing in the more detailed addresses, then I get the “page cannot be displayed” message from IE. Grrrr!!!

Hi

I seem to be having a problem logging into facebook for the last two days.i use both mozilla firefox and internet explorer and neither of them wants to work.I can access all other websites except facebook.the facebook login page loads and i can type in my email address and password but some how it loads half way and gets stuck between the login page and the facebook home page.

please help:(

Hi

I seem to be having a problem logging into facebook for the last two days.i use both mozilla firefox and internet explorer and neither of them wants to work.I can access all other websites except facebook.the facebook login page loads and i can type in my email address and password but some how it loads half way and gets stuck between the login page and the facebook home page.

please help:(

I have been having issues with facebook today. Whenever I try to log in my account will come up for a split second and then the internet application I’m running will close. This has happened with both firefox and safari. It will close and just say that there is an error causing it to quit unexpectedly.

I have been having issues with facebook today. Whenever I try to log in my account will come up for a split second and then the internet application I’m running will close. This has happened with both firefox and safari. It will close and just say that there is an error causing it to quit unexpectedly.

hello,
for the past few days i haven’t been really able to log into facebook. I have to try logging in about 20 times before being able to do it successfully and after only a fex mintues it logs offf. there is no problem with the password but instead of logging in to my home page it gets redirected to the log in page.

p.S. i just read comment number 9 by Tasneem and it looks like we have exactly the same problem except that it’s been going on for at least four days.

hello,
for the past few days i haven’t been really able to log into facebook. I have to try logging in about 20 times before being able to do it successfully and after only a fex mintues it logs offf. there is no problem with the password but instead of logging in to my home page it gets redirected to the log in page.

p.S. i just read comment number 9 by Tasneem and it looks like we have exactly the same problem except that it’s been going on for at least four days.

I was on Facebook for 20 minutes last night and today Safari opened the page and suddenly shut it down and I can’t get back on. Everything else is running and loading fine.

I was on Facebook for 20 minutes last night and today Safari opened the page and suddenly shut it down and I can’t get back on. Everything else is running and loading fine.

For about two months now I cannot get facebook to load properly in any browser. At first I thought it was a Firefox issue, but now I am having the problem in IE, and Flock.

Essentially what loads is the mobile site, and I can’t seem to get around it. I’ve cleared the cache, deleted all cookies, and temp files, and it still wants to load the mobile site. I can log in, but it’s a pain to browse a mobile site in a full browser.

I can’t seem to find anyone anywhere discussing this problem, but here.

At first I had login problems too, but they have finally progressed to where the only way I like accessing facebook is from my phone, and that loses a lot of functionality especially when it comes to pics.

For about two months now I cannot get facebook to load properly in any browser. At first I thought it was a Firefox issue, but now I am having the problem in IE, and Flock.

Essentially what loads is the mobile site, and I can’t seem to get around it. I’ve cleared the cache, deleted all cookies, and temp files, and it still wants to load the mobile site. I can log in, but it’s a pain to browse a mobile site in a full browser.

I can’t seem to find anyone anywhere discussing this problem, but here.

At first I had login problems too, but they have finally progressed to where the only way I like accessing facebook is from my phone, and that loses a lot of functionality especially when it comes to pics.

I am having the exact same problem as the last post (number 14). It seems to load what looks like a mobile version of facebook. This started 2 days ago. For now I’m only having this problem with IE. I can view facebook properly with Firefox.

I am having the exact same problem as the last post (number 14). It seems to load what looks like a mobile version of facebook. This started 2 days ago. For now I’m only having this problem with IE. I can view facebook properly with Firefox.

i have a problem to login the facebook. It was happened more than 2 month. Till now i cant access my facebook. Username and password is correct but seem like the page cannot be uploaded..

Since new facebook has changed, I seem to have errors and cant seem to click into any icon. please assist

I can't even get in my new facebook now. I already loathe it. trying to transfer my friends back to myspace.

Yes! For the past couple days facebook chat has not been working. It says the number of friends online is “undefined”. Then last night I tried to log on, and it doesn't look like facebook. You get a white screen with some words in black (times new roman ish) and there are some squares where I guessed you could put in your username and password, It will log you in, but you see no pictures, no nothing. It's so sad! I've been having problems with other sites today as well, so I don't know what's going on. AIM and Hotmail haven't been working too well either.

OMG! facebook totally works on firefox…..I don't know what's up with internet explorer then :(

Help! I cannot post or click on any links, including friend requests. I have written Facebook 3 times and they have done nothing, not even notified me that they received my message. Do you know what I can do? I am tempted to delete my account.!!!!!

Since a few days my Facebook account is not working well.I have requests from friends which r pending. I'm trying to click on the requests to accept them but there is no response. Can someone help me please?

Hi,

I cant access Facebook at all, it takes forever to try and load to the home page.

I am having no luck with accessing facebook, its been happening the last few days but this weekend it has been consently.

Can anyone who can access facebook advise them there is a huge problem? or is the problem only happening with me, can anyone else get on to facebook

ps… For the people who can actually get to the login page is lucky… mine doesnt even load to the login page.

the new FB has caused so many problems

About two or three days ago, both my wife and I on different computers and different browsers experienced the same problem, the site now appears in a strange narrow format down the left hand side of the screen, almost like a mobile type of format as others have described. It is awful and we have no idea how to fix it! It sure would be nice if someone had an idea what we are supposed to do about this!

how the hell do we log in to facebook i get to put my email in and then i can get into my page but nothing loads up …….i dont see anything not even my inbox ????? can someone email and let me know what to do to get it working again ………..tbalina@hotmail.com

I have an application on facebook using PHP. But the problems are
1. The applications area are small and full pages are not coming in this area. No scrollbars are coming. Pages are cut off after some portion.
2. After login in facebook account, user can not move back to its account from the application server. This is happening only in IE browser.

Please help me asap.

My wall has disappeared. I cannot update my status, I cannot open my applications,I cannot open notifications or chat. And at the bottom left of the screen I see “error on page”. Facebook hosts, all you have to do is send us all a message saying yes there are problems and yes, you are working to fix them. Thank you.

Since Friday, November 7, 2008 I cannot get into any facebook applications. I can open my facebook page, write on walls, send messages, change profile photos, but cannot open Bumper Sticker, Pack Rat, Flair, Green Patch, etc. . . every time I attempt to open I get the standard
“INTERNET EXPLORER CANNOT DISPLAY THE PAGE”

Very frustrating. . . . . . . . .

Since a few days my Facebook account is not working well.I have requests from friends which r pending. I’m trying to click on the requests to accept them but there is no response. Can someone help me please?

I cannot access the page at all from my comp for 2 days. Its as if facebook is down, but the app on my cell phone works. Y is this

My granddaughter added me to facebook, but when I try to open it I get a page that says my browser is not compatible with facebook and I need to use one of several they mention. This includes Internet Explorer and I am using IE7 already. What gives?

I have been trying to get into my Facebook since Thurs. Dec.4/2008. It was fine in the afternoon, & then that night I could’nt get in, & I still can’t get into my Facebook account Any help would be appreciated, Your sincerely Shirley Ann Schwarzer.

I have been having issues loading the site since today. It has been on an off. I can load the different pages with facebook but the homepage won’t load. As said, this is on and off and sometimes it loads?

the site hasn’t been working for like 3 days.get it working again please.i cant get to the homepage.

They keep telling me that my pass word is incorret. but it is not I had it saved. I do not know what to do can someone please help me. Thanks

What is wrong with Facebook now! It is completely messed up. Wrong format and very slow! All down the left side of the screen and words over other words. What is the deal?

I can`t enter to FACEBOOK for this week!!! is sooooo slow… and i have 5MB of transfer!
MYSPACE rules!
I never have problem with that!
I can`t see anything in facebook right now… is like… i wrote my email and pass, and the screen is FREEZING and i never see anything…

everytime i put my password in it tells me itz incorrect

I can’t log on using Mozilla, says password is incorrect. No problem with IE. What is up?

I have not been able to get into my account since last night it was makeing me reset mypassword everytime I loged inbut now I recieved an email saying my password was dropped and another to reply if it was really me. then nothing no questions no answers Please help me

Can anyone tell me if they are having problems connecting to Facebook? IE tries to connect and then locks up. IE can connect to anything else but not Facebook.
Please Help!!!!!

Yes I am having problem connecting with facebook. It continously locks up and will not me in or if I do get in, if I choose something, then it locks up. I have just recently experienced these problems. Does anyone have a solution?

I can get into my FB acct but I cannot update my status, I cannot write on any walls, I can’t accept any requests, my profile page is all distored, and weird looking…what is going ON? It was always fine until out of the blue last night it acted up like this? PLEASE HELP!

I cannot get my I.E.to connect to facebook when I try it just locks up. I can get on other websites no problem.
Its just facebook I can’t get on to.
Any suggestions?

I have only had my Facebook for less than a week, and am already extremely frustrated with it. It told me to change my password. Now it tells me that my e-mail address isn’t even registered there. It’s strange to me that if I don’t, how am I still getting notices that I am being signed as friends to different persons that I know? HELP!!!

I seem to be having some of the simular problems as others. When I do get on facebook it will not let me do anything. If I try to update, or go into another area it just sits trying to connect. I can’t get into anything. The bad thing about FB is you become very addicted to it. I use it to stay connected to all my friends and now I am totally out of touch. :(

my page is all broken cant find any messages etc please help

I cannot access my facebook or hotmail account when i try it says my password on both are incorrect can you please help me i dont know what to do have set up a new email addy to reply to regards

for the last 2 weeks or so i have bin able to log on to facebook but once i am on as soon as i click to see my profile or friends and such it doesnt load

I can’t make any posts, accept new friends, or make comments.

I can’t make any postings, make or answer comments, see list of my friends.

all i get is IE cannot open the internet site http://www.allfacebook.com
And then the page gets aborted!
This new facebook is a dam pain!
It needs reverting back to the bloody old one
I never had any problems with that one ever!

PLEASE HELP FACEBOOK

I got on facebook this evening and my browser keeps closing - both IE and Firefox. Its definitely FB. It only does it when I try to go on that site.

Facebook User - March 23rd, 2009 at 2:11 pm

I’m having the problem of trying to go somewhere on the Facebook website and it says that there is a problem with it. It mainly happenes after i try to log on to yoville and then other places after that. Please do somthing to help Facebook… this is really annoying!

I too am having the same problems as eveyone else. I manage to log on but then I get a message saying that there is a problem and the page closes down. The problem is only with Facebook!. I agree it is really very annoying!

I have been having a problem with FB for the last week. When ever I bring up FB it asks me to log in even though I have checked the remember me box. Then when I get on, every time I change a page it asks me to log on again. I have emailed FB 5 times in the last week, still no answer or resolution. I am very annoyed and frustrated.

Once I sign into facebook I cannot view my page. Please help me. Is there something I need to turn on or off?
kgamble1028@msn.com

I can sign into Facebook but I cannot view my home page. I can access my profile and friends page but on my home page only the applications bar at the top appears. Please let me know how to correct this problem.

Once i get on the site my homepage won’t load, I can’t see nothing please help.

I have to try several hours to get on to my account..It keeps telling me that it there are maintanance problems…It has told me this for 48 hours now….I have managed to get on 2 times in the past few days….Are there really problems with my account like it tells me? I am about ready to open a new account up…

wony maunahan - May 7th, 2009 at 2:40 am

I cannot read all the details on my page and I cannot write a comments because the letter are overlapping. how to solve this problem?

I have not been able to log in since this morning. Is anyone else having this same problem?

i cant write in facebook because i talk with my father friends and no with my friends .

I am having problems loading pages in facebook. It is taking forever to log on, and once I am on, it takes so long for a page to load! I can get to a few applications, but loading my home page is becomming impossible! Please help!

Facebook has not worked for me in the last 2 days but every other site works fine. Does anyone know what the problem is?

Chan Kim Beng - June 2nd, 2009 at 12:26 pm

I can’t even login to my Facebook for the past 24 hours. The login page does not respond as well. Facebook, please enlighten!

the facebook log in page opens very briefly , then shuts msn down….just started late last night

think it went to hell just now.. none of apps work smoothly, tried on RPS, Ext Battle, FFS, etc.. Wazzup??

Oh…login page works fine..

Wayne McFarland - June 6th, 2009 at 10:48 pm

I am IT (37 years). Did you test this release?

Many of the pictures of my special friends (my Shih Tzu EWOK and WOOKIEE) are not showing up, and that upsets me greatly.

Last night, I was clicking on my pictures and displaying someone else’s dog. Other clicks retrieved nothing. Are the addresses to my pictures lost?

Wayne

I have not been able to use facebook in days. Won’t load. All I get is a white screen with a few words/links at the bottom. Useless. I have no idea why it wouldn’t work for me when it does work for others.

Genesai Black - June 10th, 2009 at 5:53 pm

I have been using Facebook with no problem until 20 minutes ago. I was doing fine on Firefox and Internet Explorer (with IE running better than Firefox for most applications). I closed Firefox browser and tried to open Facebook on IE, and whammo!!!…For some reason that has just popped up a few minutes ago, I can’t access the homepage at all. When I enter the url, the login page flashes for a second and my IE browser automatically and abruptly closes. Can anyone out there hint me as to what causes this? It must be a Facebook glitch because I can access all of other internet activity via IE.

Hiya I mainly access Facebook via my mobile but the past couple of days all I get is a white screen. any ideas what I can do to fix this?

Maggie Smith

I also cant open the webpage i tried to open it in a different broswer but nothing. I can use any other website whats up with facebook?

Facebook won’t load. I get a white page and nothing else happens. I have tried different browsers to no avail. What is the problem?

well i am still able to get to farm town and to my inbox but as far as my profile or homepage…. nothing. it shows im logged in but all i see is a blank page. it was been going on for several days now and im wondering if this will ever get fixed or if it does, i hope it will be soon.

I can only get to farm town by going through the farmtown forum. I can’t click on the red F or pull up applications. I can get to pet society by clicking on the paw print.

I can’t add no comments to facebook, can’t go to any other apps. Its been like this for several days, its gotten so old.

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