We promised everyone an update to the Facebook gadget and we finally have one. While we’re not adding any new features to this update, we have redesigned a lot of the code in the hopes that it will fix some of the issues that people are having concerning authentication, friends feed not showing up, and having to login on reboot.

As always, let us know if you run into any problems and we’ll do our best to help out.

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Since this gadget came out there have been a group of users who have had trouble getting the login code to work on the gadget. After going through everything we could, we released the 1.0.3 version of the gadget to get additional information and here is what we found:

Almost every login code error we received was a 100 – Missing Parameter error. This means that the code isn’t being sent into Facebook either properly or at all. With that in mind, we have a new version of the gadget designed to circumvent the current system to hopefully provide the code straight from the user input to the gadget to Facebook without involving the sidebar API too much.

In laymen terms, we think we fixed it.

Also in this update the Facebook logo on top of the gadget is now clickable and links directly to facebook.com.

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Do you use Facebook to keep in touch with your friends, co-workers, and / or family? Great news! Now you can track your messages on the sidebar. The Facebook Explorer gadget helps you manage incoming messages, friend activities, and even set or clear your status message.

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Please let us know if you run into any problems or have any comments. Feel free to reply on the blog, on our forum, or on Twitter.