{"id":511,"date":"2011-09-25T14:28:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T18:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/more-on-fixing-facebook\/"},"modified":"2011-09-25T14:28:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T18:28:34","slug":"more-on-fixing-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/more-on-fixing-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"More on fixing Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about using the Firefox (Chrome works too) add-on Greasemonkey and the super script BetterFacebook and I have been getting loads of requests for people asking me to go into a little more detail of how to use it. You should <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/pvRSZg\">read that first here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am amazed at how well I was able to \u2018un-muck\u2019 my Facebook pages!<\/p>\n<p>Here is what my Facebook home page now looks like now after setting up and using the BetterFacebook Greasemonkey Script in Firefox:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"499\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Here are the options as I\u2019ve selected them. Once installed and you restart your browser then \u2018re-login\u2019 to Facebook, cancel the set up wizard. Then go to the \u2018new\u2019 Options button near your User Name and click on it.<\/p>\n<p>The options I selected give me virtually the same\/old layout I\u2019ve been used to and added the \u2018feed\u2019 to the right; which I actually find useful so long as it doesn\u2019t try and take over the whole page. Also removed are ads and other garbage I never use \u2013 applications being the major one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clip_image0051.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"clip_image005\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image005\" src=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clip_image005_thumb1.jpg\" width=\"519\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clip_image007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"clip_image007\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image007\" src=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clip_image007_thumb.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note above that I selected the \u2018Stech the Layout\u2026\u2019 option<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clip_image0091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"clip_image009\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image009\" src=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clip_image009_thumb1.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clip_image0111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"clip_image011\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image011\" src=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clip_image011_thumb1.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"421\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that above I selected the \u2018Force the main news feed to be \u2018Most Recent\u2019..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clip_image0131.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"clip_image013\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image013\" src=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clip_image013_thumb1.jpg\" width=\"514\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clip_image015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"clip_image015\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image015\" src=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clip_image015_thumb.jpg\" width=\"521\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s all the settings I chose and hit \u2018Save\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that helps those that asked. You\u2019re all grown ups. I hope that you can take the time and a&#160; chance to experience some \u2018pain\u2019 and <em>learn<\/em> how to do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about using the Firefox (Chrome works too) add-on Greasemonkey and the super script BetterFacebook and I have been getting loads of requests for people asking me to go into a little more detail of how to use it. You should read that first here. I am amazed at how well I was able &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/more-on-fixing-facebook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More on fixing Facebook&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,163,164,20,13],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}