Customizable Facebook news feed with images and comments
Facebook in a browser is becoming a mess. You lose hundreds of megabytes and have a really slow user experience (except if you have the state-of-the-art, highest-end, electricity-hog, pro-gamer computer). There are users who don't want to follow the trend buying new computers and trashing the old one just because developers who maintain websites and browser codebase are too lazy to pay attention to the resource footprint of their code. Miranda could solve this problem (as well as having already solved a lot of this kind of problem with its GREAT Facebook chat plug-in) by running a plugin that would connect to the Facebook API, download and show only the necessary content and render it onto a lightweight graphical surface (for example what History++ has) without having to deal with HTML parsing and rendering.
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Ooker commented
You can use FB Purity or SocialFixer.
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Anonymous commented
I know, it would be a lot of work, but it would be worth it. Tons of users could forget about living their social life in a browser and wasting their resources (mainly electricity). Well, we hope some others will also vote for this idea and can help in development soon.
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Just to little clarify your comment - it's not using Facebook API, but it behaves exactly like web browser (HTTP requests and responses). I'm just doing most parsing manualy from JSON or HTML. It's just not downloading all that unnecessary stuff and doesn't run any javascript code at all.
It would be possible to simplify FB wall and somehow show it in Miranda, but it would big amount of work (and maintaining it, as I'm not using FB API so everything could change without warning).
I don't have time for that myself, but I'm opened for it if someone will provide patch or help with developing it.