Chance is you have a Facebook account. Hundreds of millions of users have one and at least some of them are looking for ways to change the standard appearance and functionality of the social networking website. One unobtrusive way of doing that is to use so called userscripts which can be loaded into web browsers like Firefox and partially into browsers like Google Chrome, Opera, Safari and even Internet Explorer. Firefox users need to download and install the Greasemonkey add-on.
The userscripts change, remove or add elements to a website on load if they are activated. They can for example remove ads, display download links, embed additional content or provide other benefits to the Internet user. Check out our Facebook Login and Facebook Login Page help articles if you have troubles logging into Facebook.
FacebookDeletes
If you want to delete friends on Facebook you need to do that one by one on the Friend’s page there. That’s a problem if you do not want to remove one but maybe dozens or even hundreds of friends. That’s where the Facebook Deletes userscript comes in handy. It allows Facebook users to batch delete friends in Facebook. [link]
Facebook | Add Status
You can change your status by writing something into the What’s on your mind box. Some users like to see their previous status there before they start changing it. This is what the Add Status userscript does. It displays the current status next to the What’s on your mind box, [link]
Remove All Facebook Ads
If you are not using an ad blocker in your web browser you might want to consider running this userscript. It will remove all Facebook ads to remove these distractions from the Facebook website. [link]
Secure Connections
If you visit Facebook you usually enter through the http address. Facebook is also offering to open Facebook using a secure https connection. This script automates the process by automatically loading the https website for Facebook and several others that are configured in the script. [link]
Facebook Fixer
One of the larger Facebook scripts. The developer is currently working on a new version as Facebook recently has made some design changes to their website. There is a lot that this userscript does including
- Big Profile Pictures and Photos recently improved
- Big Album Pictures
- Video Download Links
- Load Full Albums
- Homepage Customization recently improved
- Age and Sign recently improved
- Calendar Integration
- Keyboard Shortcuts recently improved
- Re-Title
- Error Page Reloading
This is a large script that changes many aspects of Facebook to the better. [link]
Facebook Purity
Don’t like all those quiz and application messages on your Facebook homepage? Now you can get rid of them by installing the Facebook Purity userscript which automatically removes them from the homepage. [link]
Facebook Friends Checker
Want to know if any of your friends have removed you from being their friend? Now you can find out with the Facebook Friends Checker userscript. [link]
Facebook Chatbar+
Gives you a collection of emoticons that you can click for a simpler way to experience emoticons in chat. [link]
Facebook Highlight Birthdays
Highlights the birthdays of today on the Facebook homepage. [link]
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Anybody know how well these play together? Do they step on each others’ toes?
(I use Facebook Fixer, and have been pretty happy with it)
new release of facebook purity today: also blocks “became a friend of” , “is attending an event”, “became a fan of” and “joined a group” messages. get it here: http://bit.ly/fbpure
..can somebody pahleeeeeese write an ‘auto page’ script for facebook home page to keep the page scrolling as you move down! having to click the ‘more’ link on the bottom left every time is tedious and time consuming!!
thanks brainios!!
ps: see ‘flickr auto page’ for example script :D
here are two examples of an ‘auto page’ script:
https://outgoing.mozilla.org/v1/5d5dd4d567e8f34f1e8800754dbb8c89b2e714c8/http%3A//userscripts.org/scripts/show/8594
or
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6325
thanks again!
figures, the guy who referenced the original ‘auto page’ by mortimer wrote an error into the script so no one could find it.
here are those two links again:
mortimer’s original ‘flickr auto page’:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8594
bohnman’s ‘flickr auto page 1.0.1:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6325
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/63761
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