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1. In a new tab write in the address bar:

about:plugins

2. Find Shockwave Flash plugin and press Deactivate

3. Go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and install a good version of the player.

That’s it! Have fun.

More information at http://www.andyjarrett.co.uk/blog/index.cfm/2010/8/31/Uninstalling-Flash-in-Chrome.

After a short search online, it seems one of my first articles got attention from several popular online magazines:

http://mashable.com/2011/09/22/how-to-facebook-timeline/ -in the article readers are redirected to this website for a solution

http://mashable.com/follow/people/4e7c59a75198407f5b000062/

http://blackboxsocialmedia.com/how-to-enable-facebooks-timeline/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/the-new-facebook-timeline-profile-how-to-get-it_n_976789.html#s370109&title=New_Class_Of

And some links from tech blogs and online directories:

https://computeraddicted.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/how-to-enable-the-new-facebook-timeline-now/

http://zootool.com/watch/r400h6/

http://www.updowner.com/ho/how-to-become-verified-facebook-developer

Thank you for reading it, I’m glad it was useful to the community! Also, I would like to thank all people that dropped supporting and helpful comments. Let’s keep up the good work

If you try for the first time to create an application for Facebook, most probably, right after you press the “+Set Up New App” button or the “Create one” link, you will get an error message like this:
Your account must be verified before you can take this action. Please verify your account by adding your Mobile phone or Credit/debit card.

If you press Mobile phone, you will are at My Account->Mobile-> Activate a Phone. The only available option is “Register for Facebook Text Messages”. And this is where Facebook starts to fail developers. You get a window to state your Country and Mobile Carrier, but SURPRISE!…There are just a few countries there (Romania not included), so you cannot get your Confirmation code, you cannot get to the next step.

This is when I started to wonder if Facebook does ever test its code. Probably not.

After some hours of research, this is my solution in 3 baby-steps:

1. Go to this address: http://www.facebook.com/confirmphone.php/ and input your phone number

2. You will receive an SMS with the confirmation code and a link

3. The confirmation code will probably generate an error (“Sorry, that was an invalid confirmation code”) – this is hilarious isn’t it? – but if you follow the link on your mobile, the phone will be activated.

Most helpful resources should have been on Facebook.com, but they were found on: http://jesperastrom.com/facebook/

Update:

It seems that this error is affecting the Facebook developer community a lot.

If your account still doesn’t work, add your phone number at: https://www.facebook.com/update_security_info.php

Upon receiving the same error, address Facebook with a bug ticket at:

http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/

That means about 8 years working 8 hours a day, 20 days a month for 8 months a year.
References to this result:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert

http://www.dialogcrm.com/blog/2007/07/03/the-10000-hours-rule/

http://hubpages.com/hub/10-000-Hours–The-Awesome-Power-of-Practice

http://www.artsjournal.com/artfulmanager/main/wanna-get-to-carnegie-hall-got.php

http://judo.forumotion.co.uk/t202-an-expert-in-10000-hours

Malcolm Gladwell has yet another book, this time on Outliers