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A Facebook fix - get the 'old' style of home page back!
Facebook has today rolled out one of their changes they do every so often. This time round, they've changed the home page, making the text much smaller than it was before.
They've also changed the way the page displays, so a user's status update or link now shows on a new line, rather than straight after their name – getting rid of the fun of "is"-type statuses that still remind us all of the old days of FB!
Luckily, because it's such a superficial change, you can switch it back again. We've been doing some research this morning and we've come up with ways to fix it for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera users – which will, hopefully, be most of you!
So just find your browser below and follow our simple instructions to return Facebook to its former glory (ie how it was yesterday). Enjoy.
UPDATE: Thanks to Eternald in the comments for suggesting a change to make more messages appear in the old way.
For Internet Explorer
As always, this comes with a health warning – IE doesn't allow you to apply styles to only one site, so there's a (slim) chance that these styles could affect other sites. We've done our best to minimise the chance of this happening though. We've tested this on IE8 – it should work the same on other versions, though. 1/ Download this file and save it somewhere you won't accidentally delete it. 2/ Go into your "Tools" menu and choose "Internet Options". 3/ On the "General" tab, click "Accessibility". 4/ Tick "Format documents using my style sheet" and find the file you downloaded. 5/ Hit OK twice and you're done!For Firefox
1/ Install the Stylish extension and restart Firefox, then head to Facebook. 2/ Right-click on the new "S" icon in the bottom-right corner of your browser and hit "Write new style", then "for facebook.com". 3/ In between the curvy { } brackets, paste in these two lines:div.actorName { font-size: 13px!important; display: inline!important; } .uiStream .uiStreamMessage { font-size: 13px!important; line-height: 16px!important; }4/ Give your style a name ("Nicer FB" is what I've gone with) and hit "Save". 5/ You're done! Old-style Facebook returns.
For Google Chrome
1/ Install the Personalised Web extension. 2/ Head into the "Window" menu and choose "Extensions", then hit "Options" next to Personalised Web. 3/ Hit "Add new rule", give it a name (like "Nicer FB") and set the "Match URLs" to ^http(s?)://www.facebook.com - that wee ^ symbol at the start is important, so make sure it's not lost. 4/ In the "Add CSS" box, paste in this code:div.actorName { font-size: 13px!important; display: inline!important; } .uiStream .uiStreamMessage { font-size: 13px!important; line-height: 16px!important; }5/ Hit "Save" and you're done!
For Safari
1/ Download the User CSS extension and double-click to install. 2/ Head to Facebook, right-click and choose "Manage user CSS". 3/ Tick the "Enabled" box, give your style a name (like "Nicer FB") and in the domains box enter http://*.facebook.com/* 4/ In the "Styles" box, paste in this code:div.actorName { font-size: 13px!important; display: inline!important; } .uiStream .uiStreamMessage { font-size: 13px!important; line-height: 16px!important; }5/ Hit "Save" and you're done! (Incidentally, you can only do this if you're running Safari 5, the latest version, which supports extensions. If you aren't, you'll need to upgrade first.)
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