Facebook Fixer
— Last update Jul 1, 2009 — Installed 143,620 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, keyboard shortcuts & more. Compatible with new Facebook and fully customizable! |
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Now in English, Spanish and French (in Italian and German soon)
Please note: Facebook seems to have made some changes to profile pictures shortly after tonight's release that prevent big profile pictures and 'unrounding' of profile pictures from working. If these are not working for you please make sure you have the latest version of the script - they should be working again.
New in the latest version:
- Accommodated for changes in the way Facebook displays profile pictures.
- Added support for a new type of popup picture.
- Localization:
- Added a French translation (thanks to Aelidnel).
- Added translations in a couple more places.
- When using Greasemonkey/Firefox, tranlating text by selecting text and pressing T (shift + t) will show the translation on the page instead of opening a new window.
- Improved cross-browser compatibility - should now work in Safari as well as Opera. Please note that checking for updates in these browsers does not work as yet, and you should also read the Customization section further down on this page.
- Fixed a bug where loading all tagged photos would redirect you to the person's profile.
- Fixed a bug preventing the 'Suggestion' section of the home page from hiding completely when set to do so.
- Fixed a bug that caused the filter list to appear in the wrong place when set to appear in the right hand column.
- Fixed a bug in Opera preventing some popup photos from showing.
Want to request a feature or report a problem? Send a message.
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Overview
Facebook fixer 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 recently improved
- Translation recently improved
- Age and Sign
- Calendar Integration
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- 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 Fixer 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 Fixer'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 Fixer 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 Fixer - 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 Fixer.
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 Fixer.
- 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 Fixer 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.
Contributors:
- Spanish - Glen Farmer
- French - Aelidnel
Recent Updates
Updated June 30 2009:
- Added support for a new type of popup picture.
- Localization:
- Added a French translation (thanks to Aelidnel).
- Added translations in a couple more places.
- When using Greasemonkey/Firefox, tranlating text by selecting text and pressing T (shift + t) will show the translation on the page instead of opening a new window.
- Improved cross-browser compatibility - should now work in Safari as well as Opera. Please note that checking for updates in these browsers does not work as yet, and you should also read the Customization section further down on this page.
- Fixed a bug where loading all tagged photos would redirect you to the person's profile.
- Fixed a bug preventing the 'Suggestion' section of the home page from hiding completely when set to do so.
- Fixed a bug that caused the filter list to appear in the wrong place when set to appear in the right hand column.
- Fixed a bug in Opera preventing some popup photos from showing.
- Added support for multiple languages. See the Translations section for details.
- Selecting text on any page and pressing T (shift + t) will open a new window translating the text with Google Translate (use the config screen to modify the language to translate to).
- More modifications options to the home page (all are disabled by default, use the config screen to enable):
- Move the filters to the top of the right-hand column
- Move the highlights to the bottom of the right-hand column
- Left-align homepage content so its not blocked by the chat popup
- Modified to support the new username system.
- Holding CTRL when searching from the top menu bar will open results in a new tab.
- Today's birthdays are shown in bold on the home page.
- The links to show all images now works for any number of images in regular albums, profile pics and tagged photos.
- Added an option to automatically block messages on the homepage from applications not created by Facebook itself. (thanks to sizzlemctwizzle)
- Made modifications that make the script more likely to run in other browsers. Other browsers will not be able to save settings however. I have tested in Opera 9.6 and everything apart from saving settings seemed to work fine.
- General improvements to script efficiency and miscellaneous bug fixes.
- Added ability to load thumbnails for all photos a person has been tagged in (the photos tab on their profile)
- Popup images are now resized to fit on screen if they are too big
- A new method is used for popup pictures which should play nicer with other scripts, and should work on pictures in more places (including the buddy list) - as a side effect the ability to add borders to images with popups has been removed
- Added option to show full-sized popups for external images (still in beta)
- Fixed bug in positioning of "Show Big Pictures" link when viewing tagged photos
- New keyboard shortcuts:
- When viewing photos: 'a' to load all photos, 'k' to go back to album (used to be 'a')
- From any page: 'L' starts'stops the script from listening to page changes
- When set to keep the top menu bar always on the screen, the bar stays on top of the video previews on the home page
- Added ability to move filter list to the right column
- When exporting birthdays to iCal format you are now notified that the file is being created
- Added support for Serbian Cyrillic dates
- Fixed hiding of "Connect with friends" section on home page
- Removed ability to make external links direct as a result of changes by Facebook
- Fixed problem with slow text input in the new layout
- The script now adds an "all" link on albums pages which loads all the album's thumbnails on a single page - there is also an option to do this automatically and this plays well with the option to automatically show big pictures
- Big Album Pictures are now available for fan photos on some pages
- The date recognition code (for calendar and birthday stuff) now understands the following languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish (all script output is still in English though)
- Added an option to include a person's full birthdate in the event description when adding their birthdate to Google Calendar
- Added an option to include a person's full name in the event summary when exporting an iCalendar file or adding their birthdate to Google Calendar
- Added an option to make people's messenger IDs clickable (Google Talk, Windows Live etc) on the info tabs of their profiles - the links will start conversations (you may need to be signed in to that messenger program before clicking on it)
- Added separate options to make the top menu bar and bottom menu bar transparent, with varying degrees of transparency
- Added an option to keep the top menu bar visible even when scrolling down the page
- The "new layout" homepage can now be customized by hiding certain sections and columns
- You can disabled the "rounded border" effect on profile picture thumbnails giving you square thumbnails again (they are still rounded by default)
- The bar at the bottom with the applications menu and buddy list can be made slightly transparent
- Features which add events to Google Calendar now support using Google Apps
- The options for showing bigger profile pictures vs bigger photos on mouseover are once again working the way they should
- Showing a person's age and sign are now separate options
- Bigger profile pictures and photos updated: should be available with Facebook's newest layout and now works in places it didn't previously work
- Redirecting links are now converted to direct links in more places
- Popup windows are now closed automatically when going to a new page
- The script can now load up to 60 thumbnails on the same page when viewing an album (this must be enabled in the script's configuration since it is still in beta - also, it currently only loads the extra thumbnails when you're viewing the first page of an album)
- Fixed big profile pictures and photos after a Facebook change broke them
- Added ability to show bigger photos on mouse-over (previously just profile pics)
- Added some more keyboard shortcuts
- Fixed bug where typing long messages/comments would slow down the browser
- Brought back ability to automatilly reload application error pages
- When a new version is released you can now update directly from the popup message
- Added link to configure Facebook Fixer under Facebook's "Settings" menu
- Miscellaneous changes to the code and small bug fixes
- Added calendar features:
- Ability to export an iCalendar file with all friends' birthdays
- Ability to add specific friend's birthday's to Google Calendar
- Added 2 new features: keyboard shortcuts and re-title
- Fixed 'big album pictures' feature after a change made by Facebook
- Minor update to fix small bugs on the video (thanks sizzlemctwizzle) and profile/info pages.
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