Facebook connect showing blank popup on login in Internet explorer 8

Question

I am integrating facebook login to my application and it is working fine in browsers except IE. It opens the login window, after login redirecting to http://static.ak.fbcdn.

Answer 1

If you use an AdBlocker such as Privacy Badger (which I use and love), it may by default block some external urls like Facebook when opened in a popup window, resulting in a blank screen.

Simply disable Privacy Badger (or other extension) for that page, or go into the settings and make sure not to block the following urls:

• www.facebook.com
• staticxx.facebook.com
• graph.facebook.com
• s-static.ak.facebook.com

That should do it (hopefully)!

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Extra tip but beside the point; I found that it's generally ok to not allow cookies from those URLs, so long as your not blocking the request then the Facebook popup should still work. It's probably good to try out your app using different setups.