Social Fixer
Social Fixer for Facebook fixes annoyances, adds features, and enhances existing functionality to make FB more fun and efficient. Filter the news feed, hide sponsored posts and political posts, hide parts of the page you don't want to see, and more!
What is Social Fixer?
"Social Fixer" is a Firefox add-on that revamps your Facebook experience by allowing you to filter posts in the news feed by various criteria, hide sponsored and political posts, customizes the interface through display tweaks, and adds multiple convenient features such as 'Stealth Mode', 'Comment Navigator' and 'Anonymize'. This add-on also offers the ability to hide certain page components and ensures you're always on the most recent feed.
Stats
By:
MattKruse
Creation date:
2009-11-30
Weekly download count:
93
Firefox on Android:
No
Risk impact:
Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Low risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Permissions:
Size:
213.88K
Email:
ma*****@mattkruse.com
URLs:
Website
,Privacy policy
Stats date:
Chrome-Stats Rank
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788
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Summary
Social Fixer is filled with features to make your Facebook experience better.
- Filter posts in the news feed by content, author, link url, and more
- Built-in Filter Subscriptions let you just pick a filter and use it without knowing how it works
- Pre-defined filters include hiding Sponsored Posts, Political posts, things your friends like, and much more.
- Hide posts you've read and are done with, so they don't appear in the news feed anymore
- Select from a list of Display Tweaks to customize the interface, or write your own with CSS
- Force FB to stay on the Most Recent feed
- Hide parts of the page you don't want to see, like panels in the left or right columns.
- Comment Navigator lets you expand all comments and replies to a post, and highlight comments that are older than an age you specify
- Tips point you to built-in Facebook settings and options and suggest values to make your experience better
- Stealth Mode hides Like buttons, Comment areas, etc so you can browse Facebook without accidentally interacting with posts you don't intend to
- Show full timestamps on posts, rather than relative times like "1 hr ago"
- Anonymize for screenshots with one click - hide friend names, group names, profile pictures, etc. If you want to share a conversation or screenshot but not your privacy, anonymize first.
User reviews
User reviews summary
Pros
- Effective at hiding unwanted content on Facebook
- Allows for customization and control over the Facebook feed
Cons
- Issues with hiding suggested posts and sponsored content
- Some users experienced reminders to donate despite unchecking the reminder box
Most mentioned
- Effective at hiding unwanted content on Facebook
- Does not work for hiding suggested posts and sponsored content
Recent reviews
Works great
Works for some things, however I am still getting alphabet people posts after disabling all political posts. Obviously needs work if left leaning political stuff is getting in.
This clearly shows a political bias on the behalf of the creator.
Safety
Risk impact
Social Fixer may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing.
Risk likelihood
Social Fixer has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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