Make Facebook better with Greasemonkey

Facebook - Joy of Tech comicSo 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.
Leave us a comment and let us know about your favorite super-useful Facebook user script!

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