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Make Facebook better with Greasemonkey
by Jason Clarke May 22nd 2007 at 9:00AM
So I've recently become a Facebook addict. I know, I'm late to the party, but I'd been trying to avoid the social-network-du-jour syndrome that I saw my friends all suffering from. But Facebook has simply become too tantalizing. Of course, after a few days of playing with it, there were a few things that I found that I wasn't happy about. So, like any true Firefox geek, I decided to see if any Greasemonkey scripts were available that would make my Facebook experience more pleasant. And boy, I wasn't disappointed.
On Userscripts alone, there are well over 200 Facebook-related user scripts (Greasemonkey scripts) available. Now, to be fair, the number of useful scripts is far, far lower than that, since a huge number of these ones are dedicated to changing the colors or theme of the site to match with a school or fraternity's colors. Still, there are some very good ones to be mined from this list.
My favorites so far include:
- Facebook Fixer - Shows larger profile pictures, shows additional menu items, adds people's age to their profile listing, and changes Facebook redirected off-site links to direct links.
- Facebook Remove Feed Advertisements - Just what it says. Why the heck doesn't Adblock Plus do this yet?
- Facebook Auto-Colorizer - Changes many colors on the page based on the dominant colors in the primary photo showing on the page.
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Brandon said 10:31AM on 5-22-2007
I like to use two scripts called InYoFacebookToo (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7839) and thickFaceBook (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/4378). They're mostly for making images easier to see, with less clicking.
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Spenser said 10:59AM on 5-22-2007
haha, crazy!!
I too just got onto the face book band wagon and was looking for user scripts, those are the only 3 I grabbed and I am loving them!!!
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colby said 11:08AM on 5-22-2007
"I don’t care for that term. I don’t know too many monkeys who could take apart a fuel injector."
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ThunkDifferent.com said 11:29AM on 5-22-2007
This will come in pretty handy for the TEFLogue blog, we just received a large infusion from Facebook and we'll put these to use, thx!
http://teflocal.wordpress.com/2007/05/20/the-facebook-tefl-group/
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Matt said 3:10PM on 5-22-2007
I use facebook autopoke 2.1 (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5200)....never have to poke again!
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Alec said 5:05PM on 5-22-2007
I prefer this firefox extension that does several of the functions of those GM scripts...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3120
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Truegod said 11:43PM on 5-22-2007
@ Colby
High five
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Mark James said 12:17PM on 7-06-2007
Download Facebook Video: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9789
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