Too many redirects occurred trying to open

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Too many redirects occurred trying to open

I cannot access any photos on Facebook anymore without it redirecting me to a page saying:
Too many redirects occurred trying to open “url". This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which then is redirected to open the original page.

I cleared all my cookies and my cache.
I Reset my Safari too and still no luck.
I can't even click on albums
But everything else seems to work.

Please help!!!!!!!

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Feb 11, 2009 5:44 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 11, 2009 6:33 PM in response to Allie94

HI Allie,

Facebook is not Safari user friendly. Try Firefox instead available here;
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/mozillafirefox.html

One other thing to try is a disk utility like Onyx for Tiger available here:
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html
Run the Maintenance and Cleaning scripts once a week.

Also, run Disk Utility and Repair Disk Permissions ...
Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select FirstAid, then click: Repair Disk Permissions. Quit DU when it's finished and reboot.

Carolyn 🙂

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Answer 2

Allie94 Author

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Feb 11, 2009 7:09 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

I already tried Firefox and it didn't work
I will try disk utilities.

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Answer 3

Feb 11, 2009 7:17 PM in response to Allie94

This doesn't help you any but I have a devil of a time with Facebook also, to the point where I don't use it anymore. If you Google for FaceBook/Safari issues... results with many hits.
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=facbooknot+loading+onsafri&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Sorry...

Carolyn

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Answer 4

Allie94 Author

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Feb 11, 2009 9:00 PM in response to Allie94

Disk Utilities didn't work either.
Will this ever go back to normal?

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Answer 5

Feb 11, 2009 9:05 PM in response to Allie94

Did you download and install Onyx as I suggested? It's important to perform maintenance on your Mac.

Carolyn

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Answer 6

Mar 8, 2009 1:10 PM in response to Allie94

"Too many redirects" means that a URL points to another URL that in turn points to another where the first two do not provide any content and simply redirect. The issue is in how the web page is structured versus how tolerant the browser is to redirection.

Repairing disk permissions won't fix that (or much else) by the way. In fact, I'm not sure why so many people feel the urge to advise others to repair disk permissions as a first recourse. It's voodoo and will not fix 98% of the issues people are advised to repair permissions on.

The real solution is for web designers to not abuse redirection so I'd open a ticket with Facebook. Second to that, if clearing the browser cache didn't help the only thing you can do is try another browser. If Firefox doesn't work you might try Camino. It's similar to FF (both are Mozilla browsers) and I've never had a redirection issue with Camino. OmniWeb is another browser that, like Safari, is Webkit based but OW seems more sensitive to redirection than Safari is.

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