Obsolete G+ button on web control

[beshur]

Hello!

I could not find this is in search.

There is a call to google API to retrieve the google plus button (fastbutton) for the share bar on web control page (client foldingathome) .
However, this API is outdated (no sharing to google plus), so the call returns 404. This is not good in itself.
Is this part open-sourced? I could make a small PR to fix that.

I'm not sure if it's a reason (probably not), but sometimes unless I clear cache the page gets refreshed before having loaded any valuable info.

[Jesse_V]

The button was removed 24 days ago in this commit: https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-we ... aaa699bb2c

However, I think this would have to be pushed out in a new release of the client software.

[Joe_H]

Parts of the client software are open source and available on GitHub. Haven't looked to see if the Web Control part is there. If so, a ticket with a proposed fix could be put up.

But I suspect what you noticed is not the issue, as best as we can tell there was a change made that first showed up a few months ago with an update to Google Chrome. Workarounds posted have included clearing the cache, using Incognito mode, and using the Dev tools. Other browsers that use the Chromium code base also have been reported to exhibit this problem in recent versions.

So far MS Edge and Firefox have been reported to work, on my Mac I can use Safari if I change the URL from https to http and sometimes it needs a refresh or two to connect.

[beshur]

Thank you for replies!

Maybe I'll try to find the root cause of this issue, and go ahead with the PR.

[Joe_H]

Good luck!

[beshur]

Here is an ugly hack of mine https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-web-client/pull/16