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Facebook Fixer

A collection of enhancements for various aspects of Facebook eg. showing bigger profile pictures, making it easier to view albums, showing people's age and sign, auto-reloading error pages, changing redirecting links to direct links.


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Last updated March 9 2008 - You can now choose which features you want enabled, and you can easily choose where you want big profile pictures to appear. See the customization section for details.


Overview


Facebook fixer provides the features of several other scripts I have written and more, all in one:
  • Big Profile Pictures
  • Big Album Pictures
  • Age and Sign
  • Direct Links
  • Auto-reload Error Pages
  • Automatically Check for Script Updates

Details


Bigger Profile Pictures - Shows a bigger profile picture when hovering the mouse over a small profile picture. (FB Profile Pic)

Bigger Album Pictures - Provides a link to "show bigger pictures" which replaces thumbnails in an album with their full size versions. You can also use "Tools > Grease Monkey > User Script Commands > Maximize Album" to see the bigger pictures without the rest of the facebook page showing. (FB Album)

Age and Sign - Shows a person's sign and age (if they have given their full birthdate). (FB Age)

Direct Links - Changes external redirecting links to direct links (such as those in notes and items).

Auto-Reload Error Pages - Automatically clicks the "try again" button for you on application error pages. (Facebook Error Page Reloader)

Automatically Check for Script Updates - Automatically checks everyday to see if Facebook Fixer has been updated. (Thanks to Jarett's Script Update Checker)


Customization


When viewing any page on Facebook you can access the Facebook Fixer customization page through the Firefox menu: Tools > Greasemonkey > User Script Commands > Customize Facebook Fixer. Customization should be done after you log in, and separate preferences are stored for separate Facebook accounts.

There is no longer any need to use the "about:config" method as was required for customization in previous versions.


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May 2, 2008
Neewb Scriptwright

I think this script needs some updates.
 
Mar 6, 2008
Vaughan Chan... Script's author

Hi stormlifter, if you want to make the big profile picture disappear when you take the mouse off the small picture, enter about:config in the address bar and press enter. Then find greasemonkey.scriptvals.http://userscripts.org/people/14536/Facebook Fixer.BigPicAutoclose, right click on it and select "Toggle".

The picture shows up on the side because this allows it to work in places that it wouldn't work before, and makes sure you can always see the whole thing. Since that bothers you enough to comment about it I'll assume it bothers other people too, so I'll give you the option to see it the old way in the next release. By default it will still be on the side though.
 
Mar 5, 2008
stormlifter User

The new version's big picture isn't all that great, it's off to the side and it doesn't go away after you hover away from the Profile Picture.
 
Jan 5, 2008
Vaughan Chan... Script's author

Hi LenR, I'll see what I can do about the pictures showing up off the screen, thanks for pointing that out.

For the time being I've disabled bigger profile pictures on Scrabulous pages. I may keep it disabled, or I may eventually create a work-around for these pages.
 
Jan 5, 2008
LenR Scriptwright

Great app, but 2 things:
1) when I hover a picture all the way on the right, the larger picture shows up to the right of it off the screen. Perhaps detect this and show pictures to the left, or always show them in the middle of the screen.

2) this blocks peoples names in scrabulous on the player selection screen
 
Jun 12, 2007
seth User

The Online Friends link at the bottom of the Applications bar is unclickable on profile pages and the home page, but it is clickable at the message composition screen. The script is great overall; would there be a way to fix this?
 
May 31, 2007
Vaughan Chan... Script's author

Hi encosion, exactly what is it that's not working properly for you? It seems to be working fine over here.
 
May 30, 2007
encosion User

Great script! Love it... It no longer works since the introduction of Applications to Facebook though! Could you update it pretty please?
 
Apr 30, 2007
Vaughan Chan... Script's author

Hi sasouki, I believe the reason you're experiencing that is because the privacy settings the other person has selected do not allow you to view their profile. In situations like this Facebook redirects you to a search result page as you described. There is no way no get around this short of hacking the site.

Please note that the redirecting links I mentioned above are the links that Facebook creates when you add a link to an external site, such as in a note or item. This links are usually formatted like: http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_...

I will edit my description to try to make this difference clearer.
 
Apr 30, 2007
sasouki User

i can't see the complete profile of any one not in my friend list i mean i can't see their complete profile and photos can redirecting links direct enable me to see the complete profile when i enter a profile of a person not in my friend list it is redirected to http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=10080&id=number although i enter it http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=number

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