Thanks very much for this, Chris. It works well for the most part! Except for links being all .php, and i found you had to choose firefox for windows, and not the mac version. The number was 11.0. Again, I've been wondering how to set this up for awhile, so thanks so much for taking the time to explain it in detail. On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Chris Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On my mac, I use the FB mobile site. you have to configure a few things > though in Safari to make it work correctly. Let me outline those things > below. Being I'm an avid mac user, and almost never use my windows box > anymore, I figured I could chime in here and help you out. > > 1. First of all, make sure you're running the most up to date version of > Safari. Go to your menu bar with vo+M, then open the Apple menu, and proceed > by selecting Software Update. > > 2. Once you know that you are up to date, open up Safari, and hit > command+Comma to open the preferences. > > 3. Next, interact with the toolbar using vo+shift+down arrow, and locate the > advanced tab, and vo+space on it, then stop interacting with vo+shift+up > arrow. > > 4. Navigate this screen with vo+right arrow, until you find the checkbox to > enable the developer menu in the menu bar. This might sound really weird, > but trust me with this. It does work, I promise. If this box isn't checked > go ahead and do so with vo+space. > > 5. Now close your preferences with command+W. > > 6. Now, hit command+L to get to the address bar, and type in > > http://m.facebook.com > > Beware, there is *no* www at the beginning of this URL. > > 6. Once here, we need to configure one thing to get this to work optymally. > Go to your menu bar with vo+m. Once here navigate over to your developer > menu. > > 7. Once in the developer menu, locate the User Agent sub menu, and expand it. > > 8. Inside User agent, hit the letter F, as in foxtrot. This should land you > on Firefox 4.0. I know again this sounds really cock eyed, but trust me, I > swear it works. > > 9. Select Firefox 4.0. This should force the web site to reload. Once > done, have a look. You'll now find it looks totally totally accessible like > it did on the Windows side of things. > > Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to get that to stick. In other > words, each time you load the site, you're going to have to go to the > developer menu, user agent, Firefox 4.0 after loading up the web site. > > Remember, you do this after, not before, the web page is loaded. > > I hope this helps. > > If you want to see the resource I found this from, go to > > http://www.applevis.com > > and do a search for Facebook. > > HTH. > > Chris. > On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Ed Worrell <blindworr...@optimum.net> wrote: > >> Hello, I am using Friendly for Facebook. I have been looking for a >> accessible iPhone Facebook app, to no luck. Then I started to look at apps >> on the Mac, and I dove into Friendly for Facebook, and it is a great app so >> far. >> >> Ed >> On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:19 PM, Shawn Krasniuk <bigbigshawn....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Alex, I don't know why it's not working for you but it works for me. >>> When I press my designated hotkey for it to open, which is control+F, I can >>> see pretty much everything on my Facebook. I even have Growl configured to >>> tell me if there's a new notification. Perhaps you might want to set up a >>> hotkey to open it yourself. Although, I would be interested in finding out >>> if there's a better program than this, I would like to be able to have news >>> feeds from friends and companies that I've liked automatically read out to >>> me. >>> >>> Shawn >>> Sent from my white Mac Book >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
