Posts made by mattkruse

27.0 was published on April 12. I submitted 27.1 on the same day and we are still waiting for approval and publication.

See https://www.facebook.com/theoldlayout/posts/167793385055475 !

@Elyss Did you read the popup messages? It contains a full explanation, as well as a link to the FAQ. Everything is very well explained.

@dylesid Hi, please see the FB Page for Old Layout which has more information about this: https://www.facebook.com/theoldlayout/
Thanks,
Matt

@pioneerisloud Can you give me any details? What is the url that gets stuck? The latest attempt at a fix is to use upload.facebook.com which is the old layout, but perhaps you are hitting a case where it doesn't work?

I have published version 5.0 for Opera which should fix the problems, at least for now. See the FB Page for more info!

@Ambaradanner Hi, please see here for details: https://www.facebook.com/theoldlayout/
Thanks, Matt

@Ambaradanner If you open a new tab and type in facebook.com does it work? Are you trying to access from Speed Dial? It works well for me in all my tests, as well as for thousands of other Opera users. I'm trying to figure out why a few people seem to have issues.

@Tomi93 Yes, I've learned that launching Facebook from Speed Dial causes the extension not to run. I don't know if this is an Opera bug, but I am actually working on it right now to see if I can fix it!

@Bowaca Which version of Opera on which OS? I am trying to figure out why it works for most people but not for a few. Do you have any other extensions installed?

@venkes what version of Opera are you using? It works for me and many others. Did you refresh after install? Are you using any other extensions that might conflict with this one?

@leocg According to another tester, changing user-agent header in an extension is broken in Opera back to earlier in 2020. I have tested several other user-agent switcher extensions in Opera, and none of them work. It definitely seems to be a bug in Opera.

@leocg Is there anything special needed to enable them? I believe I've done everything needed, yet headers still don't seem to get modified.

I'm using the very latest Opera, not sure if that makes a difference.

I created an WebExtension to force Facebook into the old layout - OldLayout.com

It's very simple, but it doesn't seem to work in Opera. So I tested other extensions that change the user-agent header in requests, and none of them seem to work either! I'm using https://manytools.org/http-html-text/http-request-headers/ to look at the actual request headers being sent, and the user-agent header is never being modified, by any extension.

My code is extremely simple, and uses chrome.webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders.addListener() to intercept headers and change user-agent. Full source is here: https://github.com/matt-kruse/old-layout/tree/master/extension

I can't find any documentation that says webRequest is broken in Opera. But, I am also not a regular Opera user so I don't know if I'm missing a setting or something that is required for these to run? Any tips at all?

@a1s1kht1r then something else is going on and making it look like it's social Fixer. I literally write all the code in this extension and have for almost ten years. I have a totally clean reputation on the web. There is no way that this extension is posting to your account or doing anything malicious. I encourage you to look closer to find the real culprit.

@a1s1kht1r I know because I wrote all the code, and there is no code that does this! Did you install the official extension, or maybe get it from other malicious site? Lots of bad people try to impersonate the extension and put in bad stuff. The official extension definitely has no code that does this.

@a1s1kht1r This is not true. Social Fixer doesn't post any ads or do anything malicious. If you are seeing ads posted, it is caused by some other application. You can disable Social Fixer and verify that it is not the cause.

I just uploaded a new version of my extension, but I don't see any way to edit the description that shows up in the listing page. Am I missing something? Where do I go to change that?