Hack Your Facebook with Firefox

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Hack Your Facebook Experience with these Firefox Extensions and Greasemonkey Scripts

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Firefox Extensions

MeeTimer — Do you know how much time you spend on Facebook? You might be more than surprised — you might be seriously shocked. Install hot Firefox extension MeeTimer, right click on the new clock on your statusbar, and add Facebook to the “Procrastination” group. Free at last, my friend.

Boost for Facebook — Really trick out The F.B. with this comprehensive extension: Log in automatically, remove advertisements, hide apps, customize with skins, and more — all from one place. The extension adds a Firefox toolbar that gives you access to Facebook notifications. Some might find this toolbar handy, but I find it annoying — so I just disable it from the View> Toolbars menu.

PicLens — Makes all those miserably-sized photo album pictures zoom up with a yummy effect to fill up the whole screen. Show this one off to your friends.

Greasemonkey Scripts

Facebook to Google Calendar — Adds a lovely “Add to GCal” button in the events details page, and automatically enters the event info into your calendar when clicked. Now the events app is actually useful! Nice.

View all Images — Adds a link in the “View More Photos of a user” section to view all photos of them.

Photo Album Keyboard Navigation — Lets you navigate photo albums with your keyboard: “n”/”p” for next and previous pages, “c” for jumping to the comment box, and “t” for showing/hiding the tagging box.

Left Menu Always Expanded — Makes the left menu stay expanded always. I don’t know why Facebook put that expander nonsense in anyway– just one more thing to click over and over.

Mate-ify — Do you say “mate” instead of friend? This script replaces every instance of “friend” with… that.

The Ultimate Facebook Fix — I don’t know what’s so ultimate about this one — All I know is that it makes that blue menu bar at the top fill the whole width of the page, thus getting rid of the annoying cut corner design. And that’s good enough for me.

Got any faves you’d like to share? Post them in the comments. Thanks!

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