Facebook Manager Plus
— Last update Nov 18, 2009 — Installed 4,352 times.|
Script Summary:
Enhancements for Facebook:bigger profile pictures and photos, easier viewing of albums,links to download videos,showing people's age and sign,google calendar integration,Virtual Keyboard Interface,Customize Own Facebook Color,keyboard shortcuts & more.Compatible with new Facebook and fully customizable! Version: 2.0.0 License: GPL: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html |
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THE ORIGINAL SCRIPT IS MADE BY Vaughan Chandler
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Overview
Facebook Manager provides the following features:
- Big Profile Pictures and Photos recently improved
- Big Album Pictures
- Video Download Links
- Load Full Albums
- Homepage Customization recently improved
- Localization
- Translation
- Age and Sign recently improved
- Calendar Integration
- Keyboard Shortcuts recently improved
- Re-Title
- Error Page Reloading
- Automatically Check for Script Updates
- and more...
Features in Detail
Most features are enabled by default, but can be enabled/disabled independently - see the customization section below.
Bigger Profile Pictures and Photos
Makes a bigger picture popup when hovering the mouse over thumbnails of profile picture or photos, even if the person is not your friend. You can choose to have the bigger picture stay visible until you click the 'x' to close it. Or you can have it disappear when you move the mouse off of the small picture. You can also hold CTRL, SHIFT or ALT when putting the mouse over a picture to prevent the popup from appearing, or hold them when taking the mouse off a picture to keep the popup open. More customization options are available in the scripts configuration.
Bigger Album Pictures
Provides a link to "show big pictures" which shows the full-size versions of pictures from albums, profile pictures and pictures a person was tagged in.
Load Full Albums
Thumbnails for every image in an album can be loaded onto a single page. By default this is done when you click on the 'all' link, but it can also be down automatically by changing an option in the config popup.
Video Download Links
Provides links on video pages to download the video (underneath the links for tagging/reporting the video). Facebook uses more than one format for videos - files with a FLV extension must be played using an FLV player. If the file doesn't start downloading when you click 'Download Video', right click on the link and select 'Save Link As'.
Homepage Customization
By default the homepage will look the same, however you can use the script's configuration to hide the filter column to the left of the feed, or the entire column to the right of the feed. Instead of hiding the entire right column, you can also hide the following sections independently:
- Highlights
- Pokes
- People You May Know
- Connect With Friends
Facebook Manager will output text in the same language that you are using Facebook in, if the language is supported. See the Localization section below for more details.
Translation
Select any text in Facebook and press T (shift + t) to translate it using Google Translate. This feature requires keyboard shortcuts to be enabled, and the translation language can be selected in the config screen.
Age and Sign
Shows a person's sign and age if they have made their birth date public. These options can be enabled/disabled separately.
Calendar Integration
Adds links on people's profile to add their birthdays to Google Calendar. Also adds a link on the birthdays page (http://www.facebook.com/events.php?bday=1) that lets you export an iCalendar file with all your friends' birthdays. This file can be imported into many websites/programs including Google Calendar, Mozilla Sunbird, Apple iCal and many more. (If you have a lot of friends it can take a while to generate this file)
If you use Google Apps you can specify your domain in the scripts configuration so that the script can provide the right links for you.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Provides site navigation and access to Facebook features using keyboard shortcuts. For example press "P" to jump to your profile, or press "b" to see full-size pictures when viewing an album. A full list of shortcuts is available in Facebook Manager's configuration. If a shortcut is not working, try clicking anywhere on Facebook's white background and trying the shortcut again.
Re-Title
Removes "Facebook |" from the title of every page.
Error Page Reloading
Automatically reloads the page when application errors occur.
Automatically Check for Script Updates
Automatically checks everyday to see if Facebook Manager has been updated. You can also check for updates on demand in the scripts configuration. (Thanks to Jarett for his Script Update Checker)
Customization
Every feature listed above can be turned on and off independently in the scripts configuration. There are three ways to access the configuration popup:
- Put your mouse over
Settingson any Facebook page - the last item in this popup should beFacebook Manager - If you have not disabled keyboard shortcuts you can type
C(case sensitive - that's a capital c) - If you are using Greasemonkey/Firefox, you can use the Firefox menu:
Tools > Greasemonkey > User Script Commands > Configure Facebook Manager.
Browsers Without Greasemonkey
This script might run (at least partially) in browsers without Greasemonkey. I have tested it in Opera 9.6 and others have tested it in Safari.Because the functions that Greasemonkey provides are missing in these browsers, the normal way of storing settings doesn't work and the settings have to be stored in cookies instead. This has three side-effects:
- Cookies must be enabled for settings to be saved.
- If you clear your cookies or switch between normal and private browsing modes, you will need to reconfigure Facebook Manager.
- The cookie(s) containing your settings will be sent to Facebook when you load pages. Please note that while these cookies would allow Facebook to tell that you are using this script and access your settings for the script, no private information is sent - in most cases the cookies are simply set to 'true' or 'false'.
Localization
Facebook Manager now supports outputting text multiple languages.
The script currently has built-in support for English, Spanish and French and more will be added if contributed. If you are willing to translate to a new language, and you will be able to keep the translation up to date, please send me a message.
