facebook add account doesnt work

[Jason Brown]

Every time that I go to sync my facebook, instead of opening up a plugin inside the window like google does, it opens up a firefox window with a facebook login. I entered my credentials and checked the box always stay logged onto/into Ubuntu. I press login and it just pops up a plain white page with black lettering saying "Success" and nothing else happens. reloading the page produces the same result. Letting the firefox window sit there does nothing. The Online Accounts window just has a cancel button.

[Alberto Mardegan (mardy)]

Hi Jason! Thanks for reporting this bug -- it's most likely network- (maybe even country-) specific, because everything works fine here, so I need to ask you some more information.
Are you behind a proxy? Can you please re-try creating an account after issuing the following commands from a terminal:

killall signon-ui
export SSOUI_LOGGING_LEVEL=2
signon-ui > signonui.log

And then send attach the signonui.log file? You actually don't need to complete the login, just wait for the page to open in the browser and then type Ctrl+C in the terminal.
I suspect that your network does not support https (and we don't perform authentication over http for security reasons).

[Alberto Mardegan (mardy)]

Actually, many users have reported this bug yesterday, and some already provided the needed info. So, no need for you to perform the steps above.