No script blocking either?

The favorites button is a script that runs as one of the very last things on the page. If you stop any of the other scripts from running, everything after that script doesn't run.

Since Favorites is basically the last thing to load, if you block anything else on the page, it will not work.

So... since it's an actual feature of the site, would it be possible to put it 'earlier' on the page?

Unfortunately our development team (who spend a lot of time reading and writing code) have decided that the place the favorites button is in the code, is the absolute best place for it.

There are a ton of reasons not related to "I want this to load first and this to load second" to change the placement of something in the code, and they've spent years refining where everything is. I've chatted with them about this issue before and they've assured me that it's where it is for a host of reasons that don't include irritating people with script blocking software.

I apologize for your difficulties, but this is something that's probably going to stay the way it is for a while longer. I will bring this point up to them again, but I'll probably get the same response.

Thanks for the explanation, and for bringing it to the team's attention. It's appreciated.

I'm pretty sure I left that comment when I was at work. There it never appeared. I'm now at home, when I load an Instructable while logged in the favorite button does appear, but there's a delay of 2 seconds before it pops up. I don't see any errors in firebug, I will install it tomorrow morning and check again at work.

And no, no script blocking, ad blocking, greasemonkey junk.... just Firebug.

Chrome seems to have some weird quirks.... another member had a similar problem, so if you don't mind, can you try the same fix? I know its going to sound a little strange, but it took care of the problem...

Go to settings > Options > Under the hood > content settings --- Select the box for "clear cookies and other site data when I close my browser" and then save and close Chrome. Then open Chrome again, and go to content settings again, and then uncheck the box. Then log back into Instructables.

For some reason, the normal 'clear cookies' method doesn't fully work in Chrome, but for the other member I helped, the above steps took care of the issue.

Dang. You don't by chance have a large number of favorites do you? I know that another member had a problem with the button disappearing after favorite-ing over 80 Instructables. If not, then I'm not sure what the issue is...

I would suggest that you leave your OS info and the version number for Chrome so that a developer can look into the problem further.