Facebook at the moment is the best site for social networking. It has apps, compressed mobile version apart from the desktop site to keep people connected. But there are features that can annoy the users as well. For example: broadcasting of the pages and pictures you “Like” on the News Feed of your Facebook connections. You might want to eliminate these little annoying functions and for that you will need to install the Social Fixer for Facebook.
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The Social Fixer for Facebook is a browser extension. It enhances functionality and gets rid of things that annoy you on Facebook. What is surprising is the extension is free of cost. The developer of the extension has donated it for public benefit. The latest version 7.801 runs on Firefox, Opera Mini, Grease-Monkey, and Google Chrome. Unfortunately it does not function on Internet Explorer. The extension has following features:
1. Tabs and themes : It features tabs on your News Feeds and themes to customize to your choice. You can read posts according to your convenience. Social Fixer classifies and groups the posts under different tabs.
- Keeps the posts that interest you on the Home Tab so that you can reach them easily, and move the other posts to a tab to go through later.
- For the themes, you have colors you can use to update in case you’re tired of the regular blue and white Facebook.
2. Posts and Feed Filters : Something that annoys us is the posts that we have already read showing up now and again on the feeds. The extension allows us to hide them.
- Feed filters lets you choose what you prefer to see on your News Feeds.
- Hide stories you’ve already read.
3. Enlarging and Highlighting: Hovering on a particular thumbnail can enlarge it for a better view of it. You don’t have to click on the image and wait for it to load. Highlighting is for comments.
- If you’ve read a post and the post has new comments, the post will be visible again.
- If you’ve lost interest from the post, simply mute the post. When you do this comments will stop.
- If you find this tiresome, simply set a threshold of comments. A limit that won’t be crossed.
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Other than these, Social Fixer has many enhancements, and all of them come into use. You can get quick links to your pages and events. You can track your friends and also if you have been “Unfriended” you will be notified about who removed you from their friends list and when you were removed. It has left column navigation, which you will find on the original Facebook site as well. It provides the user with pin notifications. The feature has been removed with the latest upgrade on Facebook. It offers Custom CSS Skins to make your surfing session look better. Lastly, it offers retrieving of older posts. The link “Older Posts” at the bottom of the News Feeds will retrieve earlier posts. In case you’ve missed the notification on a post about somebody commenting on it, you might just click “Older Posts” and see it.
