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Comment by johnnytee | Hacker News Reader

This did not work for me "0 contacts imported"

I got the same thing with Safari and FF on OS X, then I remembered that I have blocked just about every backchannel between web pages and FB that I could find.

Are you using something like an AdBlocker script to block Facebook Connect or an extension like Facebook Disconnect? When I turned that stuff off, I was able to import a few hundred contacts...

I don't have a Facebook option to import from. I originally click a link entitled:

" An easy way to import your contacts Automatically bring family and friends into Yahoo! Mail, from Facebook and your old email accounts. Get your contacts now."

Then arriveat a page that doesn't have Facebook:

"Step 1 - Select Source

Importing contacts from your existing address books is easy. Just select the account(s) below where your contacts are stored. Default Accounts

    Another Yahoo! Account
    MSN
    Live.com
    Hotmail
    Gmail / Googlemail
    AOL
    A desktop email program (Outlook, AppleMail, etc...)

More Services

    Comcast
    EarthLink
    Laposte
    Verizon
    Web.de
    Orkut"

1. Change to the classic interface. The button for this is in the "options" drop down in the upper left under the yellow web search button.

2. Click on the "Contacts" tab.

3. Select the "tools" dropdown from the royal blue menu bar.

4. Choose "Import...."

5. You should see clickable logos for facebook, gmail and hotmail.

ALSO:

It worked for me with firefox 3.6.9 on ubuntu. It didn't work for me with 3.6.9 on CentOS. It appears to be very fragile.

Thanks, that worked.

Step 1 should be upper right, not upper left.

I tried it on linux and osx, and neither worked. I even verified by secondary email and it still didn't work.

Doesn't work in Chrome. Tried in FF and then it worked.

Doesn't work for me in FF. shrug

I just tried it an it worked fine for me in Chrome (OS X). I had changed my Yahoo settings to Yahoo Asia a while back so I could enable POP, and when I created the new email address it defaulted to Yahoo Asia.

Not sure if this played a part but I now have all my friend's email addresses in a CSV file on my local HD...

Worked fine for me in Chrome on Ubuntu 10.10.

It took two tries, however. The first time, it imported 0 contacts. I tried it again less than five minutes later, using the same account, process, and browser. Worked fine.

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