I can Stumble again!

Somewhere between Firefox 3 RCs and the official release my StumbleUpon decided to break. I’m not sure what happened, and I even tried the latest beta, but whenever I tried to submit a new page I’d get an error dialog that auto-closed so quickly I still don’t know what it said. But thanks to the SU Help Forums I found something that did the job for me.

First off, uninstall the StumbleUpon extension. Don’t just disable it, completely remove it. Then go to Edit > Preferences > Privacy > Show Cookies and delete any cookie from stumbleupon.com. Don’t worry, you won’t have to remember how you logged in all those months ago, that part of StumbleUpon’s settings will be kept. Now close (not restart) Firefox.

Start Firefox again and install StumbleUpon (if you’re using Firefox 3 you can just use the first tab in the Add-ons Manager and install it from there). Of course if you’re an Ubuntu user StumbleUpon is in the Universe repository so it’s even easier to install.

Restart Firefox again, and you should be able to once again stumble like you should be able to, seeing pages others have found and submitting new pages for others to enjoy.