when trying to add Facebook as an online account it opens FB in browser window & fails to add it as online account

[donach]

http://askubuntu.com/questions/259528/online-accounts-in-12-10-facebook-not-working describes it well. So I'm not the only person with this problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu19
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-25.38-generic 3.5.7.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 23 20:31:14 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-13 (10 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu4.2
 deja-dup 24.0-0ubuntu2
 gnome-control-center-signon 0.0.18-0ubuntu1
 indicator-datetime 12.10.2-0ubuntu3.1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.