For those of you that have been using my ....... Plus and ....... Plus Element Hiding Helper filters, I would like to offer some refinements.

Originally, I suggested that one could block the Facebook table with:but that broke the Airport Code Lookup. So, I suggested:which, unfortunately, broke the User Profile module.

So, I suggest that one turn-off filtering while using these two modules. Here's how to do that:

If you're using the first filter noted above, please add this exclusion filter to make the Airport Code Lookup module work:If you're using the second filter above, please add this exclusion filter to make the User Profile module work:(Many thanks to lin821 for providing feedback on my filtering project.)


The above changes should solve the cosmetic issue of the Facebook Link table showing on your screen. Now, if you would like to eliminate the background calls that FT makes to FB, (and, potentially make FT faster, more reliable, and more secure) you'll need to replace my previous suggestion:withThis change is necessary because the FT kids changed their FB-link coding yesterday.


And, completely unrelated to Facebook, you might find the following filters will make your FT browsing "better" by eliminating unnecessary (IMHO) calls to partners:
Of course, filters like these may have a financial impact on our FT hosts; I'll leave that discussion to OMNI participants.

But, back to aesthetics... if you would like to eliminate the FT banner, and free-up over an inch of screen space, please add these filters: