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Fix for “Facebook Chat Hijacks the Firefox Session”

Sat, Nov 28, 2009

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If you are a Facebook + Firefox user, you might have come across this persistent problem whenever you use Facebook chat.

When I am typing to someone in Facebook chat and they send me a message, it cuts off what I am typing then it resumes typing with some letters missing.
Also when I am viewing another page, off Facebook and someone messages me in Facebook chat it pops me back to the Facebook page with the chat window open.

Basically, your Firefox session will be hijacked by the Facebook chat till you read the latest chat message. I found it really annoying, so just avoided it by going offline from Facebook chat. I initially thought I am the only one facing the issue but was surprised to see few others having the same issue! So today, I wanted to find out the reason and a possible solution for this, so that I need not hide myself from Facebook chat. This is when I bumped onto this page on Facebook issues and found the possible solution.

The problem was with QuickTime plugin for Firefox. I disabled the plugin and the issue was resolved!

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I am yet to know the exact reason behind this, but it solved the issue, and that’s what matters!

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Raju - who has written 829 posts on Technically Personal!.

Raju is the owner and editor-in-chief of TechPP. A proud geek and an Internet freak, who is also a social networking enthusiast. You can follow him on Twitter @rajupp

6 Comments For This Post

  1. Anthony Timberlake Says:
    December 15th, 2009 at 2:14 am

    I have been looking for a fix for this for a while. Thanks!

  2. Scarlet Says:
    January 3rd, 2010 at 8:57 am

    This seems to have fixed my FB chat problem, too. Thanks; it was driving me crazy.

  3. rado Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 10:50 am

    great, big thank u…

  4. S@m Says:
    January 14th, 2010 at 9:51 pm

    Ok whenever i click on someones name in my chat list it automatically goes to saying that they’re offline. even though i know that they are on. would this solution work for my issue?

  5. VampireM Says:
    January 28th, 2010 at 8:30 am

    I am facing the FireFox/FB Chat problem, but I do not have the QuickTime plugin installed. What other plugins do you know of that may cause this problem?

  6. Kim Says:
    January 31st, 2010 at 10:33 am

    Thank you soo much for this! I had a lower version, but the description said the same thing, so I disabled that one and it worked like a charm! Thanks again!

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