With the latest version of Better Facebook, you can thankfully undo both of these changes!

First, download Better Facebook for your browser by going to http://BetterFacebook.net

Then, make two changes:

1. In Options->Popular (the first tab), enter "13" as the value for the last option – Force post font size to be __px. This will restore the font size.
   
2. In Options->CSS enter this text into the big box:

.actorName{ display:inline; margin-right:3px; padding-bottom:0px !important; }

Click Save and refresh Facebook. You’ll be back to the layout you had before. Enjoy!

But after the update, the selector was hidden in a dropdown under a checkbox on the left. Very inconvenient!

So, Greasemonkey to the rescue again!  I wrote this Greasemonkey script: Gmail – Restore "Select" line including "Unread" link

This will add the "Select" line in and bring back one-click access to message selection, like this:

Enjoy

Finally, I found the root cause and solution.

The problem was unicode strings being passed into JSON.stringify(). This sometimes resulted in an invalid JSON structure, which then failed when passed to JSON.parse(). The root cause was not within my code, but within the Greasemonkey User Script Compiler that I used to create the Add-on.

The problem was that the script was not being read in using UTF-8, so when executed it didn’t properly handle UTF-8. In the script-compiler.js file, line 22 (for me) I found this:

var channel=ioService.newChannel(aUrl, null, null);

I simply had to change the line to this instead:

var channel=ioService.newChannel(aUrl, "UTF-8", null);

I re-packaged the add-on and the problem disappeared! Hopefully it anyone else runs into this, a quick Google search will find this page. In all my searching, I hadn’t come across anyone else talking about this specific issue. But solving a very needle-in-a-haystack problem is very rewarding, and I’ll be glad to stop getting error reports!

The script has been updated to work with the new Facebook layout, and also now supports Chrome!

Check out the site and the script. I hope you find it useful!

BetterFacebook.net

This script was born out of a simple problem: I wanted to find out which movies have been released to theaters or DVD lately, and add them to my Netflix queue. Unfortunately, Netflix doesn’t provide an easy way to browse "major" movie releases by release date. However, IMDB always has a nice interface for this. Further, I’ve found myself at IMDB before, looking at a movie that I would like to add to my Netflix queue, but I had to go to Netflix, search, find the movie, then add it.

Solution? A new GreaseMonkey script!: Netflix Links on IMDB

I created this simple GreaseMonkey script, which adds a little red "+" next to movie titles on imdb.com. Clicking the image pops up a new window that searches on the movie name, usually finding the movie you want as the first match.

Easy! Hope it helps!