Facebook scrolling on Mac keeps jumping around on its own

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Facebook scrolling on Mac keeps jumping around on its own

Hello all,

Firstly, everything on my Mac is updated and in good order. Other websites work fine.

What happens is that when I'm viewing my Facebook news feed and start scrolling down the page (it then automatically loads new posts) my news feed "jumps". In other words, in doesnt keep in order and it jumbles me up back to stuff I've read.

In other words, somehow, loading the new posts causes my Safari to forget where I am on the page and take me somewhere else.

Has anyone else experienced this? Has anyone got some advice for me? I want to keep using Safari (not too keen on Chrome, etc).

Thanks

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Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on May 8, 2011 8:22 PM

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Carolyn Samit

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May 8, 2011 9:31 PM in response to thombecker

From your Safari menu bar click Safari / Preferences then select the Extensions tab. If you have any installed, turn that off, quit then relaunch Safari, try FaceBook.

If it's not an Extension issue, from the Safari menu bar click Safari / Reset Safari. Select the top 7 buttons, click Reset. Quit / Relaunch Safari. Try FB.

Just in case, make sure you are running Safari 5.0.5. Click Safari in the menu bar then click About Safari. If it's a prior version, click your Apple menu / Software Update...

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thombecker Author

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May 9, 2011 8:44 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Did everything you suggested but didn't fix it.

I'm almost sure the same problem happens to you, because I don't think it's that simple. I think this is a Safari bug and we need Apple to fix it. 😟

And yes, I'm using the latest version, 5.0.5 (6533.21.1).

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May 9, 2011 1:17 PM in response to thombecker

No. Not happening here.

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thombecker Author

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May 9, 2011 3:50 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

I beg you to please test again. Go to your news feeds and scroll down slowly. You'll see it "jumps" as more posts are loaded.

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thombecker Author

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May 27, 2011 6:21 PM in response to thombecker

So, any progress on this problem?

This misbehavior doesn't happen to me only. You can see here (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1061722) that there 2 people (besides me) complaining about the same problem. Here (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1158732) there is one more.

If you google for it, you'll find more. I do believe there are many people that get annoyed by this issue since this happens to facebook after all, millions of people access it every day.

I think Apple should give this problem higher priority as I'm sure it's inducing people to dislike the already-not-so-popular Safari browser, especially when either Firefox and Chrome don't present it.

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Jun 23, 2011 10:15 PM in response to thombecker

I have the same problem that the OP has and others have experienced it as well. It does not happen in Chrome, IE, Firefox, or any other browser. As you scroll down the Facebook news feed and near the end, the feed loads more posts automatically for you. When this happens, the page jumps up at least 10 or so posts causing you to have to go back to see what you missed. This is a problem with Safari as I have a brand new MacBook (2011) and experience the issue only in Safari or using the Fluid.app (which is using a Safari browser).

Like the OP said, try it on your Facebook news feed in Safari. Make sure to scroll slowly as you near the bottom, or else you will miss it.

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Apr 4, 2012 1:59 PM in response to DustinLH00

just download the facebook app

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Apr 4, 2012 4:54 PM in response to 868686868686877

Are you ********? We are talking about Safari on OSX, not the iPhone. There is no official app for OSX and telling us to go with a different product does not address the real issue. If you complained about OSX and I told you to go get Windows, would you find that answer to be satisfactory?

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