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This page Admission Services for Colleges in India for NRI Students doesn't show, "Login with Facebook" functionality in IE 9. Infact this doesn't work in most of IE browsers. can you please fix the issue.
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Please ensure you've enabled the JFBConnect System plugin, which is part of the 3.0.2 release. We don't have a check for it on the JFBConnect Overview page yet, because it's not required, yet. It will be required with the 3.1 release. Enabling it fixes some conflicts that are caused in some configurations on IE sites.

Let us know if this helps or not!
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I just enabled this and would know the result in a day or two. I guess you should have made this a must if it helps in IE display.
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Like we said, it's only in certain circumstances where it's necessary to enable it. Additionally, the plugin was added to v3.0.2 late in development, so we didn't want to make it required until we were sure it did what we wanted to (which after plenty of testing, we're confident in). In the 3.1 release, it will be on the Overview page as a mandatory plugin.

Let us know how it goes!
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I like this extension, but I had the same issue. Your remedy worked, thanks, but I would have appreciated this flagged up front, since an IE error is such a big thing for web-designers. A small oversight in an otherwise very good extension.
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Actually, having activated the system plugin as you recommend, I get the following script error in ie8:

Line: 24
Character: 2641
Code: 0
Error Message: Class not registered

URL: connect.facebook.net/en_GB/all.js

This is when hitting the "Login with Facebook" button on findlay.directrouter.com/~sams15/

Is this truly a production release? Fatal javascript errors with ie8 like this seem like beta issues, not something I'd expect in a product I have paid for.
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The same button seems simply to be unresponsive in ie7. I am running these IEs on xp on parallels, could you advise / take a look?
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We agree, the system plugin should have been called out more. Again, it was a late addition to 3.0.2, but it's been tested enough over the last month. It will be on the JFBC Overview page in the next release, and we just added it to the configuration guide that it should be enabled in the "Enable Plugins" section.

As for your current issues, in IE8 or IE7, I'm not seeing the Javascript errors you mention. As for this being a beta release, it's definitely not. 3.0.2 has been out for over a month now, had 2 RC releases ahead of time, and 2 very minor bug-fix releases after it went to 3.0.0 release. The Javascript error you mention above is actually referencing Facebook's javascript library (all.js), which Facebook is at liberty to change whenever they want. It's possible (and has happened many times in the past) that they pushed an update to their library that caused a conflict. Since we don't see it now, they also may have fixed it quickly. When they do push a conflict in their Javascript, we work very fast to fix it, which was part of the purpose of the 3.0.2 release, which was released within 12 hours of a Facebook API platform update which caused issues for JFBConnect users.

Again, we can't see that error in IE7 or IE8 and don't see any errors in Chrome either. Didn't test other browsers, but let us know if you're still having issues. We tested the login button to the point of allowing your application. We didn't not login, as we don't like creating users on everyone's site unless they want further debugging help.

Keep us posted on your status!
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Closing this thread as the 2nd support request from x507 is unrelated to the original support topic. That support request is being discussed here:
www.sourcecoast.com/forums/topic?id=1437
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