Top 10+ Greasemonkey Scripts to Improve Facebook Experience

Facebook is the social network of choice for millions of people, but like any site out there, we all have our own list of improvements we would like to see. Luckily the Greasemonkey script community feels the same way and has come up with hundreds of scripts to improve your user experience.  

The scripts allow you to change colors, remove ads, automate repetitive tasks in applications and a whole slew of other improvements. Try out these more than 10 great scripts to use Facebook the way you want to.

What are some of your favorite Greasemonkey based Facebook enhancements?

 

Auto-Colorizer - An interesting script that analyzes the default image for any profile you visit and adjusts the color scheme of the page to match it. Also works on photos, events & group pages.

Facebook App Faviconizer - If you open your apps in separate tabs, this will replace the Facebook favicon with the one used by each application so you can more quickly identify what is in each window.

Facebook Colour Changer - Not only can you set the Facebook colors to anything you desire, but you may also change the logo image in the top left corner to whatever you want.

Facebook Fixer - Instead of loading several scripts, you can load Facebook Fixer and get larger profile images, video download links, Google Calendar integration and several other features.

Facebook Highlight Birthdays - With all of the info on your homepage, it can be easy to overlook the birthday notices.  This script will highlight them for easier spotting.

Facebook Image Download Helper - This script will allow you to use a Firefox extension like DownThemAll! to download all of the images on a page in Facebook.

Facebook Video - This script will not only give you the ability to download videos hosted on Facebook and convert them, but it will also provide you with the option of embedding the videos on other sites.  It is also available as a stand-alone Firefox extension.

Facebook View Photo in Album - A powerful script that allows you to view the photo albums of people you aren't friends with, and it also gives you the ability to see a person's pictures no matter who took them.

Friend Quick Remove - Streamlines the usual three steps to remove a friend down to just one easy step.

inYOf4ceBook - Tired of squinting at thumbnail images of people in search, thinking they kinda look like the person you meant to find?  inYOf4ceBook will let you place your mouse over the image and see a large view of it so you can actually tell who you are looking at.

New Facebook Layout Adjuster - Allows you to remove ads, sidebar and more to make a smoother looking version of the new Facebook.

Remove Facebook Ads - As the name implies, this script removes all of the various ads that show up around Facebook such as banner ads, sponsored news items and so on.

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INSTRUCTIONS

1. Use Mozilla Firefox
2. Install Greasemonkey
3. Restart Mozilla Firefox.
4. Basic - Navigate to Facebook and login (if you’re not already logged in). In the top right corner of the website, next to the “Home”, “Profile” and “Settings” buttons. Click on the Small Spanner button and change the option to “Gradient" for which Background Color you preferred.
5. Advance - Install and Start-up your preferred Scripts listed above.

 You are DONE! You now have improve your own Facebook experiences as your demand.

Tips, Tricks & Hacks to Boost Internet Speed

The map below is colored accordingly. As you can see, if you are in the US, the fastest public resolver is an OpenDNS resolver. But, if you’re in Malaysia, it’s probably Google. Or, if you're in Europe, it'll be Dyn.

Fastest DNS providers per country, UltraDNS (yellow) applies to Hong Kong.

The results shown are the average over a 24-hour period of latency measured to each resolver.

Was your internet connection speed provided by your local Internet Service Provider(ISP) too slow? 

Although you have paid quite expensive to get the best internet connection speed. Sometimes, ISP put some limitation when you have exceed the quota of your internet subscription or maybe the ISP heavy traffic itself on peak hours with large file dowloaded by every subscribed user which can make your internet terribly slow.

Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider. Using Public DNS can speed up your browsing experience, improve your security and get the results you expect with absolutely no redirection.

Here, I will give you a tips, tricks & hacks of how to boost your internet speed by using the Top Public DNS Resolver;

1) Click Start button.

2) Search for " View Network Connection" at search bar then click on it.

3) Right-click on the internet connetion type you using (LAN / Wireless), then select Properties like below.

4) Connection Properties dialog will popup like below, select Internet Protocal Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and then click Properties button.

 

5) Internet Protocol Version 4 Properties dialog will popup, leave the "Obtain an IP address automatically" checked and then select the "Use the following DNS server addresses" and insert the address as below.

The public DNS resolver to be used will be difference, refer the fastest Public DNS Resolver for your country on the Map figure above. Then insert the DNS Server Address, refer Public DNS Address figure below.

6) Click OK on both "Internet Protocol Version 4 & Connection Properties" dialog.

You are DONE! Now you have boost internet speed to the maximum instead your slow ISP speed.

Create USB Bootable Flash Drive with Software

1) Download WinToFlash. The software is still in BETA phase so it is possible that it has some bugs.

2) Extract the downloaded WinToFlash zip file to any folder on your desktop.

3) Open the folder and run WinToFlash.exe by double clicking on it.

4) Click Next, Tick "I accept EULA", click Next and Next again. Wait for the software to load some ads, click Next and Next again.

5) A Welcome Screen like one in the image below will show up.

 

6) Click on the Big Green Tick. The welcome screen will turn translucent and WinToFlash wizard will open.

 

7) Click Next. On Windows File path entry box, click Select button and select the location of your Windows disk, or the folder containing the Windows setup files and click OK.

8) On USB Drive path entry box, click Select button and select your USB flash drive’s location and click OK.

9) Click Next button. In the dialog box, Tick "I accepted the license agreement" and click Continue.

10) A warning message will be displayed saying that “Formatting will erase all data on the disk”. Click OK on the message.

11) WinToFlash will show a window with a Progress Bar like the one in the image below.

 

12) After the progress bar reaches the end, press Next and then press Exit. A notification to update WinToFlash might be shown, click No to close it.

You are DONE! You now have a bootable pendrive that can be used to install Windows.

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Installation Requirements

• An empty flash drive with a storage capacity of 1GB for Windows XP and 3GB for Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
• Windows installation disk or Windows installation files stored somewhere on your computer.