Using facebook on the new Yahoo! home page

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Praveen

Yahoo! has rolled out a new homepage that allows you to get updates from social networking sites like Flickr, Facebook, Yahoo! Profiles and more. It even allows you to view Gmail on Yahoo! front page.

Read this article to get more information about the homepage – Yahoo! Corp Blog

This post is mainly for people who are having problems connecting facebook and Yahoo!

If you have already added facebook on the Yahoo! homepage and are unable to view facebook, follow the instructions mentioned below. The screen which comes again and again should look somewhat like this.

Step 1
Login to facebook and mouse over on the Settings tab. Click on Application Settings

Step 2
Select the Authorized option from the dropdown from that page.

Step 3
Remove the Yahoo! application from the list(Click on the x). It should be somewhere at the bottom of the page, watch out for a purple Y! logo. A confirmation screen will appear, select Remove.

Step 4
Now open the new Yahoo! home page and click on Edit.

Step 5
Search for facebook application and remove it(click on the small x), click the I’m Done button.

Step 6
Now click on the Add option, search for the facebook application and add it.

At this time, we have successfully removed the facebook application from Yahoo! homepage & revoked the permissions on Facebook. Now we just have to mouse over on the facebook app & follow the instructions. Everything should work fine.
I’m listing down the steps to make things easier for you’ll.

Step 7
Mouse over on the facebook application on the Yahoo! home page, this is how your screen should look. Click on login to facebook.

Step 8
Click on Connect

Step 9
Select Allow Access

Step 10
Select the Continue option for "Allow Yahoo! to access my News Feed and Wall"

Step 11
Select the Allow Publishing option on the next screen

Step 12 (Last step)
Select the Allow Offline Access option. After selecting the allow offline access option, the page will refresh and you will be taken to the Yahoo! home page.

Mouse over on the facebook tab and enjoy!

This is a quick fix for the problem, YMMV. Leave a comment if this worked for you or you faced any other problem. I’ll see if I can help you.

[Update] Yahoo! is working with Facebok to get this resolved as soon as possible

Comment from Yahoo! product team:

"Hi, I’m Andy from the Yahoo! product team. I’m sorry that it’s still not working for all users but please know that we are working hard with Facebook to get this resolved as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience and feedback. We’ll keep you updated."

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  • http://www.mayursha.com/?ref=pr Mayur Shah

    thanks dude! nice info.

  • http://www.mayursha.com/?ref=pr Mayur Shah

    Nice Info

  • Andreas

    Still not working for me. I’m stuck in Step 10 which will come up over and over again.

  • Praveen

    @mayur thank you

    @Andreas A few suggestions.

    1. Logout from both facebook & yahoo and close the browser from which your trying. (If possible clear all your cookies)

    2. Open the browser & login to your yahoo! and facebook account

    3. Now follow the steps I have mentioned above

    Hope that works.

  • mb

    all going so well til step 6 and:

    Invalid API Key

    The application you are trying to use does not exist or has been disabled.

  • Chris

    step 10 keeps coming up for me over and over again no matter how many times i click it

  • Erin

    I tried logging out, closing browser, erasing cookies and reopening to start over and still got stuck on step 10.

  • Tanya

    I’m stuck on 10 as well.

  • http://Facebook Diana

    Won’t go past step # 10. Keeps coming up over and over.

  • Javiero

    I just did it almost 10 times and I’m stuck on 10 again and gain and again…
    I deleted cookies and everything info like that of the browser, and tried in IE8 and Firefox…
    Please Help!

  • tristan

    im having the same problem as Andreas and i tried doing what you recomended but it still wont work

  • Juan

    I’m trapped at step 10.
    The page says that I’ve already gave permission to the app for the wall and news, but when I click over “continue”, it goes over the same request.
    I’ve been using Google Chrome

  • http://crazyrussian20 andrei

    shit is still not passing

  • Stephanie

    I can’t get past step 10, either. It just keeps going to the screen that says I’ve already given permission, and has “Continue”.

  • http://www.astutemarketing.net Chandler

    I am also having problems.
    Based on some ‘flying by URLs’ in the status field… maybe it has to do with a ‘trick’ LMHOST file.

    I use a stubbed out LMHOST file to disable keyloggers and most ads. Many ‘known intrusive’ sites are in the LMHOST file and they are redirected to resolve to my internal IP.

    Do any of the other folks having issues use that same method?

  • Andy Kiang

    Hi, I’m Andy from the Yahoo! product team. I’m sorry that it’s still not working for all users but please know that we are working hard with Facebook to get this resolved as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience and feedback. We’ll keep you updated.

  • http://Facebook Diego P

    Still didnt work for me to link facebook to Yahoo. Im stuck on the step where you hit continue it just does nothing. and the when i go to Yahoo homepage it says the authorization was removed. How do i fix this?

  • Daniel Saucedo

    Thanks It worked

  • Praveen

    Thank you everyone for your feedback.

    Looks like it didn’t work for some of you’ll.
    As you’ll have seen, Andy from Yahoo! has told us that they are working with Facebook to fix the problems you’ll are facing.

    @Daniel Great to know that it worked for you.

    I’ll keep you’ll posted.

  • http://m.uk.yahoo.com zen

    Hi Praveen

    Step 2 and 3 will only remove the authorisation from the Yahoo! application, not the application itself. This could be why it didn’t work for everyone?

    I was having the same problem and followed your instructions except for Step 2 and 3 where I went on to the Yahoo! application profile page instead and removed the application itself. Then everything worked for me.

    Thanks for your help!

    zen

  • Praveen

    Hi Zen,

    I just cross checked what you said & turns out that both(step 2+3) and removing Yahoo! application from the application profile page have the same effect – they both remove the Yahoo! application from your facebook account.

    I’m glad the post was helpful. Thanks for sharing your experience, it will surely help others here.

    -Praveen

  • joeyjojo

    Stuck on step 10! wont go further.

  • chroma601

    I am also stuck at step 10. Clicking on “Continue” reloads the same page.

  • Leah

    I’m stuck on step 10 as well. Tried all the steps! ;(

  • chroma601

    I tried a fix posted here and it worked for me. Start again, and when you get caught in the step 10 loop, open a tab and go to Yahoo. Go to edit, delete Facebook, I’m Done. Then go and add FB. Log on to FB and you’ll be at step 11. You will be in another continue loop. Go back to Yahoo and repeat the delete/add, and log on to FB again. You are now at step 12!

  • haider

    im stuck on continue step its keep coming over and over i did what u said above but still the same

  • Javiero

    Thanks chroma601, it worked for me…

  • D

    Step 10…. SAME AS OTHERS

  • Juan

    Thanks to chroma601…
    If you haven’t tried this trick, then you should…It’s really working