Last week we discussed 5 Social sharing add-ons for Firefox and how you can use them to share links, news and updates with your network. Today we take at a look at specific Firefox add-ons that are built for the world’s largest social platform: Facebook. The open-source developer community at Firefox has built more than 170 of these add-ons for Facebook which are apparently also filling the gaps in Facebook’s features & functionality. For all Facebook & Firefox fans, we’ve compiled a list of the 8 most useful Firefox plugins.
Facebook Toolbar
This feature rich Facebook toolbar lets you access your favourite social networking site with ease and pops an alert whenever you receive a new message from your friends. It has quick links, photo upload function & its search-box makes it super easy to search for friends and you can also share a page from your profile. If you are one of those heavy Facebook addicts this add-on would certainly make life easier for you. You can install the Facebook Toolbar from here.
Boost for Firefox
As the name suggests, with the Boost Firefox add-on, you can completely enhance & customize your Facebook browsing experience. For e.g. it shows you a larger version of photos on doing a mouse-over, helps you to get rid of that silly ‘confirmation’ box when you poke a friend and also change the look-and-feel of your navigation bar skin.
Facebook Dislike
While you do not hesitate to click on the ‘Like’ button when you enjoy your friend’s status, there are some occasions when you think otherwise. This Firefox plug-in lets a user dislike feed stories or the news posted in fan pages. Although the visibility of dislike action is limited to the users who have installed this add-on, it has received immense popularity with over 586,034 downloads till date.
AdBlock Plus
Do you feel irritated by those big banner Facebook ads that appear in the side column? Thanks to the Adblock Plus plug-in, you can choose to now disable all the ads that you see in Facebook. There are two ways in which you can control the appearance of ads: By either enabling the filter subscription list which will block 99% of the ads or selectively disable the ads by doing a right-click on the ad and choosing the Adblock image option. While Adblock Plus may not be in compliance with Facebook’s Terms, it is an extremely popular plug-in and has been downloaded 68,924,364 times.
Yoono
Yoono has been developed as a one stop hub to manage all your social networking hangouts. Using a single interface, you can send status update to multiple social networks. Multi-network focus doesn’t mean that there is less emphasis on Facebook. Yonoo for Facebook has a slick design, doesn’t consume your CPU memory and provides complete control over Facebook through the sidebar.
FacePad
How many times have you felt like downloading your friend’s party album on Facebook and simply let it go because it is a time consuming process. The solution lies in FacePad with which you can download all pictures in the selected album by simply doing a right-click on the album and choosing ‘Download with FacePad’.
Firefox Universal Uploader
Firefox Universal Uploader which resembles a FTP (File transfer protocol) utility, helps you to upload multiple files in one go. You can manage multiple Facebook accounts and choose to upload a single file or an entire directory at once.
Firefox Facebook Video
While YouTube is the preferred public video sharing platform, many of us Facebook for uploading our personal videos. To manage the video downloading hassles, Firefox Facebook Video plug-in can be used. With it you can download videos, convert them to different file formats and embed them outside Facebook.
Are you a Firefox fan ? Do you use a Facebook extension which is missing from the above list?
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All of these plugins are extremely useful for firefox + facebook users. I am gonna check this out for a couple of weeks at least. Sorry Google Chrome
Comment by Imran Hunzai — January 25, 2010 @ 10:24 am
very useful indeed
Comment by Imran Hunzai — January 25, 2010 @ 10:26 am
yeah
the dislike thing is the best of all. wish facebook officially adds it to the website.
Comment by scoRpio — January 25, 2010 @ 10:32 am
I prefer Facebook fixer which is a greasemonkey script.
Comment by WLM — January 25, 2010 @ 11:49 am
Don't forget Better Facebook!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/52...
(soon to be at http://BetterFacebook.net)
This makes Facebook _much_ more usable for me (disclaimer: I am the author).
Being able to hide all "read" posts and have new comments highlighted for me is huge. Add in the ability to track unfriending, activity in my groups, etc and this is a huge plus.
I am updating it regularly and will add even more features as I go on. If anyone has suggestions, let me know.
PS: There is a GreaseMonkey version also, which is the same exact code, but requires GM. It doesn't need to go through the approval process, so updates to the GM happen usually a few days faster than the add-on version
PPS: Chrome extension coming soon!
Comment by Matt Kruse — January 25, 2010 @ 12:09 pm
2nd @ WLM. but great list!! <3 oh yeah, image zoom is nice too ;]
Comment by Jesse Wilson — January 25, 2010 @ 10:53 pm
Excellent list! Particularly interested in using the "dislike" feature and the video enhancement tool.Thanks for pointing me the right direction!
Comment by Jackie Thorpe Ewing — January 26, 2010 @ 4:33 am
The Firefox Facebook Video addon is gone
Comment by Carla — January 26, 2010 @ 4:41 am
WOW! Do NOT use the "Facebook Dislike" addon. It put very weird characters all over my Facebook page.
Comment by Carla — January 26, 2010 @ 5:08 am
Thanks for this review
For info, Yoono 7.1 beta is available here https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/downloads/f...
This version adds a multicolumn mode and improves the Facebook support. Good testing! – Yoono Team.
Comment by Laurent Quére — January 29, 2010 @ 3:16 am
Superbe!!! ?
Comment by Facebook User — February 3, 2010 @ 8:49 pm
Can someone please e-mail me as to how to get our profile picture back on our homepage and in chat,it bugs me that you can't see the persons picture when you are chatting with them on facebook!!sirotiss@gmail.com
Comment by Kate — February 18, 2010 @ 5:42 pm
Hello world and pal friend explorers digital continent, special actors facebook, how to upload images to an animated GIF may act on the facebook page (home page and profile pages). (~_~) GO TO THE CHANNEL GRACE
Comment by AdMaiorem ???? — August 2, 2010 @ 6:45 am
The Facebook Translate Firefox Addon might come in handy, too: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15...
Comment by Oliver Schlöbe — August 3, 2010 @ 11:22 pm
thanks for review:D
Comment by julia — August 20, 2010 @ 4:01 am
wow .. love it at all
never ever thought there's a plugins like that for facebook .. thanks publisher
Comment by Hossam — September 9, 2010 @ 5:19 am
Tried using your Better Facebook and had nothing but problems. I am using the Flock browser but used an older version of your program with FireFox. It Wont let me set up the tabs but it shows the tabs from the older version on FireFox. Problem is that sometimes one tab disappears until I reload Facebook and does not always put the feeds in the proper tabs. More trouble than its worth.
Comment by John Schultz — October 12, 2010 @ 6:09 am
i don't think so cuz facebook is a social networking website
if they add this it'll be sorta "anti" social
Comment by guest — October 17, 2010 @ 8:10 am
Facepad & Firefox Facebook Video is not working now…..It may be violation the Facebook policy..
Comment by dipti mishra — March 6, 2011 @ 3:40 am
i downloaded greasemonkey, installed it … enabled it, but it doesn't change anything … i can't download any videos … can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong? i have mac os
Comment by MEtoo — April 5, 2011 @ 9:45 pm
My mom had this problem and it was because she had it blocked in her Adblock filters.
Comment by glenn — September 1, 2011 @ 1:56 pm
Wow It is really great. thanks for share this.
Comment by Best Photographer — December 31, 2011 @ 6:52 pm