I said I would never do this again, but despite my better judgement, I dropped in on a friend last night to fix their computer.
It had problems with accessing facebook, and since I’d dropped them a friend request, and they hadn’t replied, it was in my interest to fix this.
I like simple problems, a quick login to facebook on my account showed a problem with the style sheet not loading properly, and the left-hand menu all being screwed up. A reload of the page later, and no problems, my facebook profile was up, and looking like the huge mess that the application now seems to make it. Clicking on other friends showed no issues either.
A check with the user, and she said that there was the yellow error shield in the bottom left corner of the page when wanted to accept people as her friends. So I get her to log in, and access the page, no error shield, and she can pop-up the notifications and accept them without issues.
So why is it occurring? Seems that a bad copy of some of the behind the scenes files (CSS, JS, etc) got downloaded, and ‘cos her Internet Explorer had somehow got set NEVER to refresh pages, these had stuck in the system. Tweak the settings to Automatic, save, and hopefully all her woes are fixed (facebook wise at least).