How to customize Facebook with Social Fixer

Facebook already offers many basic features to exploit and, over the years, others have been added (many of which have been criticized). Don’t we like social media as thought by the creators? Do we want to add some missing features? To improve the management of the news area, automatically hide sponsored posts and filter content we can rely on Social Fixer, a’ browser extension able to customize each part of the Facebook site to your liking, adding those features that we have always wanted on the social network and that we have never been able to activate or obtain.
This plugin is free and can be installed on all major browsers, such as Chrome, Firefox and Opera. In this guide we will show you what this extension adds to the classic Facebook, so you can decide independently whether to keep it on our system or not.

Download Social Fix

The extension can be downloaded for free for the most popular web browsers for PC and Mac; below:

1. Social Fix per Google Chrome
2. Social Fix per Mozilla Firefox
3. Social Fix per Opera

The extension is also available as a Javascript plugin, usable on specific engines such as Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey or Greasemonkey; if we use one of these engines for Javascript extensions, we can integrate Social Fix by downloading the right script.

Social Fix functionality

After downloading the extension on our browser, we recommend reloading the Facebook page, so as to immediately see the extension at work. In this part of the guide we will show you the main features of Social Fix.

Content filtering

Among its most popular features we find the content filtering system, which allows you to immediately hide any post that contains news, information or images about something we don’t want to know or don’t care about, in a completely automatic way. To activate the filters, click on the wrench symbol at the top right, then go to the section Social Fix Options -> Filters and click Create a New Filter; we can filter by keyword, by hashtag or by image or video tag. In addition to custom filters we can add some of the filters created by the authors or shared by other users, moreover useful to avoid spoilers on films or political news.

Hide sponsored content (Facebook Ads)

Facebook allows companies and pages to show personalized posts to a specific group of users (paying a certain amount for coverage and diffusion). This content will appear at the top of the Facebook news stream, ruining the navigation. To block “sponsored content” once and for all (identified with this writing), click again on the wrench symbol, then go to the section Social Fix Options -> Filters and enable the filter Hide Sponsored and Suggested Posts. In this way, all suggested and sponsored posts will no longer be displayed along with other news from our friends and the pages we follow.

Add space when we press Enter on comments

When we comment on a post or any other content, when you press the button Enter the message will be sent immediately, without the possibility of going to the head. Basically Social Fixer enables the functionality that allows you to add a “carriage return” each time we press Enter; in this way we can send the message only by pressing the key Publish on the input field. To activate this feature, click on the wrench symbol at the top right, let’s go in Social Fix Options -> General and enable the items related to Fix Enter In Comments, Replies & Chat, based on the scenario or the text field where we want to activate it.

Hide posts you’ve already read

How many times will it have happened to always see the same post at the top of the stream, perhaps because it is heavily commented or with many Likes?

With Social Fixer we can hide a post that has already been read or seen several times by simply clicking on the check mark at the top left of each post.

Tricks to protect privacy and stop auto-starting videos

By clicking on the gear icon and selecting Social Fix Options -> Tips, we can activate some simple tricks to make the videos less annoying (which will no longer start by themselves), block the sending of notifications on live videos, hide their date of birth, make the list of friends private and restrict access to the own timeline.

All these items can also be activated or adjusted from the Facebook settings, but having them at your fingertips in a single window is much more convenient!

Always show the most recent posts

Unfortunately Facebook, with each page load, moves the News selector from Latest a Main news (the latter prefers to show sponsored posts or posts with more Likes / shares).

If we always want to see the latest posts published by friends or from the pages we follow, click on the wrench symbol at the top right, let’s go to Social Fix Options -> General and we activate the voice Automatically Switch to Most Recent view of the main Newsfeed.

Hide parts of the Facebook page

If there are any sections of the Facebook page that we don’t like and we want to delete them, we can do it through Social Fixer.

We click on the wrench symbol at the top right and click on Hide/Show Parts of the Page. In this mode we will only have to click on the parts that we do not want to see in the interface (changing color from green to red), then confirm the changes by clicking on Done Hiding. From now on we will no longer see the parts of the page we don’t like!

Use Stealth Mode

How many times has it happened to us to accidentally press on a compromising Like or to have added to friends a person we were just observing? To avoid this kind of errors we can adopt the Stealth mode of Social Fixer. In this mode, every click we make on Facebook in some sensitive points will be “canceled”, so as not to risk compromising a friendship or a relationship due to a Like too many or for the addition of a new friend or friend.

To enable Stealth mode, simply click on the wrench symbol and select the item Enable “Stealth Mode”.

Conclusions

We have seen together the most interesting features that Social Fixer adds to our Facebook page; in reality there are many others hidden, we will just have to install the extension and discover them all.

To make Facebook even cleaner, we can also turn off Facebook Messenger notifications, as described in our guide How to disable Facebook Messenger notifications. To increase account security, we can rely on the advice shown in our guide on how Avoid getting your Facebook password stolen and account theft.