Face Off Extension for Firefox
June 26th, 2007
I find Facebook to be a very useful tool for networking and keeping up with what my friends and acquaintances are doing. However, with the proliferation of optional add-ons for profile pages, I sometimes miss the simpler and more focused Facebook of a few months ago.
To make the site easier to work with, I wrote a little add-on for my favourite browser. The Face Off Extension for Firefox let’s you turn off 3rd party Facebook applications.
If you’re comfortable editing your site-specific stylesheets in Firefox, you can also use something like the following CSS to create the same effect:
@-moz-document url-prefix(http://www.facebook.com/) {
div[id^="box_app_"] { display:none; }
}
This code makes use of a new CSS3 selector to match any DIV with an ID attribute that begins with “box_app_”—which is the (current) format for all 3rd party Facebook applications.
If people find this extension useful, and if the staff at Facebook have no objection, future versions of the Face Off extension will give you the option to select some 3rd party applications which are still displayed.
This is only version 0.1 for this extension—it does one thing and one thing only: removes all 3rd party applications!
Thanks for creating this! I don’t hate the applications myself, but plenty of my friends do. I will share this with as many of them as I can!
Great idea! Any plans to allow blocking of specific applications but not others? There are some I find annoying (top friends, anyone?) and others that I think are rather useful. And even though I’ve been tasteful with my own applications, my profile is loooooong now.
Great idea, I’m waiting for the selectable version but when that comes out I can see this as one of mine and many others essential apps. Well Done.
Great idea, I’m waiting for the selectable version but when that comes out I can see this as one of mine and many others essential apps. Well Done.
Doesn’t seem to do anything for me for some reason
Has anyone actually tried to install this? It doesn’t seem to work for me or another friend.
The idea is great, but it needs to work!
Try using this (with greasemonkey) instead:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/11992
This also doesn’t work for me … I click the link on the top right to install this add-on but it does nothing. I’ll check out the other script thing recommended here.
Just an update … Firefox was blocking me from downloading this Add-On.
It still does nothing to any facebook apps, but I did get it installed.
Hi, this is a great idea – however – it does not seem to work for me. Installed, and got the little hockey mask in the bottom corner, but it’s not doing anything.
This really needs a facility to quickly and easily toggle it on or off.
My utility from Facebook took a sharp nosedive when the new apps rolled out. The thing I liked most about Facebook compared to Myspace was its simple, clean interface. It’s been a while since I could say that. At least it hasn’t succumbed to hell of chain letters and soft-porn ads that prevail on Myspace!
I realize this is an old thread, but I figured I’d post this anyway. It looks like facebook as applied the div “box_app_” id to all apps (facebook and third party) so using that little hack ends up removing virtually everything from facebook which isn’t really what I was looking for. As a result, I manually went through and added back in the apps I did like (the wall, personal information, groups.. etc). Here is what I came up with:
div[id^=”box_app_”]:not(#box_app_2327158227):not(#box_app_2719290516):not(#box_app_2341989679):not(#box_app_2297529396):not(#box_app_2407511955):not(#box_app_2356318349):not(#box_app_2305272732):not(#box_app_2503140832):not(#box_app_2347471856):not(#box_app_2361831622):not(#box_app_2386512837):not(#box_app_2392950137):not(#box_app_2309869772)
{
display: none !important;
}
div[id^=”icon_app”]
{
display: none !important;
}
Firefox rocks man…
and with extension such as this one it stands off all the other browsers.
works for me!
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