Make Facebook better with Greasemonkey
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.












Comments
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Subscribe to commentsBrandonMay 22nd 2007 10:31AM
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.
SpenserMay 22nd 2007 10:59AM
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!!!
colbyMay 22nd 2007 11:08AM
"I don’t care for that term. I don’t know too many monkeys who could take apart a fuel injector."
ThunkDifferent.comMay 22nd 2007 11:29AM
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/
MattMay 22nd 2007 3:10PM
I use facebook autopoke 2.1 (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5200)....never have to poke again!
AlecMay 22nd 2007 5:05PM
I prefer this firefox extension that does several of the functions of those GM scripts...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3120
TruegodMay 22nd 2007 11:43PM
@ Colby
High five
Mark JamesJul 6th 2007 12:17PM
Download Facebook Video: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9789