How to clean up your Facebook Feed – Get rid of all the quiz and application notices.
Posted by Geoff Jennings on March 23rd, 2009Tags: Facebook, Firefox, Greasemonkey, Web Tools
Facebook had a significant design change last week, and for many, this was not a positive change. I might be in the minority, but I don’t actually mind the visual aspects of the design, with one huge, glaring, obnoxious exception. I love to see my friends statuses, links they find interesting, photos, videos, and wall posts. I have little to no interest when they take a quiz and the quiz tells them they should be living in Ireland. Or similar things.
It used to be that Facebook allowed you some control over what showed up in your feed. I told it really liked photos, and didn’t like quizzes, and it worked reasonably well. They removed this option. Boo Facebook.
But there is an answer- And it’s name is Firefox and Greasemonkey. For those not familiar, Firefox is a great cross-platform web browser. through the use of Extensions and Add-ons, it allows a level of control over your browsing unmatched by other browsers. Chrome might be faster, but I can’t give up my extensions. If you’re not using it, you should be.
Greasemonky is an add-on for Firefox that allows you to run scripts that customize your browsing. Greasemonkey scripts are designed to run when you visit certain websites, and they can do all kinds of magic. Here are the 4 steps to Facebook happiness:
- Install Firefox – http://www.firefox.com
- Install GreaseMonkey
- Restart your browser
- Go here and click Install- this adds a script to Greasemonkey
- Enjoy a new, nicer, quieter Facebook.
Firefox is a really good web browser! I am the same way and i don’t like to see random quizzes and things on my feed. I do like status updates though and so my family and I created a application for that very purpose. It’s called Status King! http://www.statusking.net It is a lot of fun and has the funniest status updates on the internet. Everyone come try it out!