Web App for Facebook. Lightweight, ad-free, chat support and modern look.

I know you use RSS for notifications for Facebook, however is there any way to add notifications for messages too? That way I can remove Facebook Messenger.

Wouldn't it be wise to read https://www.facebookbrand.com/dos-donts when considering to continue to use essentially the same name as the https://www.facebook.com/lite/ product?

Legal battles with deep pockets corporations might not be advisable, unless one is hoping for a financial settlement on "who came first" ...

Besides the legal issue, there is also the never ending confusion caused to new users, despite any disclaimer notices.

It's possible to play videos posted in the social network but it's not possible to maximize them using the button from the lower-right corner. It is possible via Chrome entering m.facebook.com though.

Just saw this on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/4f5pcg/psa_facebook_is_planning_on_removing/

A few users reported that when they click on messages tab on m.facebook.com they were greeted with a message suggesting to download the official messenger app from play store. As of yet I haven't faced with a problem on my FaceSlim app.

Just wanted to give you heads up.

Hello there,

First of all, thanks for making this app! It works neatly!

I'm a facebook user by constraint: I use the messaging system to stay in touch with long distance friends and organize group-ups, that's also my source for events to go to, etc.

But there's one thing I really dislike about facebook: the fact that before you can even do all this interesting stuff, you are presented with an endless feed of unimportant posts about people's lives and funny cat videos, etc.

So about 8 months ago I installed uBlock on my desktop browser with some custom rules to prevent facebook from displaying the news feed. I can still access all the important stuff and specific posts if I'm involved in them (tagged or mentioned in a comment), but I never get side-tracked and I'm using facebook as an efficient tool for my work and (actual) social life.

I wish I could do the same on my mobile too. And I wish other people had the option to try this healthier use of facebook. That's why I would love to see an option to disable the news feed altogether, or maybe make it the last tab and not the default go-to, so you can take care of the important stuff before your eyes get baited by a catchy title of picture.

I know it's not an easy task but it could really change a lot of people's lives so please consider it :)

If it's any help, here are the ublock custom filters I've got right now:

facebook.com##div#stream_pagelet
facebook.com##div#pagelet_trending_tags_and_topics
facebook.com##div#pagelet_ego_pane

So basically just hiding any <div> with those classes. It's sort of a quick fix but it does the job!

Thank you very much! Have a nice day and thanks again for making this app!

jedd

So I noticed that if you follow those step you can use the chat in normal mode. And I wonder if the app can't be changed to allow using it in normal mode. If you enable facebook basic, then reload the page without quitting the app at any time, you can still use the normal interface and be able to access your message.

Can the app be changed to make it thinbk that it's in basic mode when you clic on the message icon ?

Hi all. First let me thank you for this very nice app ! I've a small request. I often find myself offline and in need to check a message I received earlier. Would it be possible to add some kind of offline storage or cache to make it possible to use the app even without network connection ? I really miss this feature.

thank you for your work !

Currently when I click on "View Full Size" link of an image, it asks me to open it in an external browser. It would be nice to open it in FaceSlim.

I would to see ability for FaceSlim to be on the list of apps when I want to share something (text, for start, but sharing images also would be neat thing to have, if possible).

New release (2.0.0) has support for disabling images. There are 2 new strings for this option.

<string name="no_images">Disable images &#8635;</string>
<string name="no_images_description">Don\'t load any images. Reduces data usage drastically.</string>

I would be gratefull if you could translate those two :) @antun3s @de-live-gdev @pejakm @panenka @G33KS44n

Korean translation has more strings missing. It would be awesome to make it complete :) @halcyonest

The app isn't usable with the last f-droid version

If you tap on the "co", red text spawn on the left of the screen but there isn't any place to write your username and password

I always access FB via Tor, which is not possible on FaceSlim. Please add the setting for custom proxy address. This also involves making the settings page accessible when FaceSlim is launched (currently there's the FB login page without any way to access the settings).

Had to use a browser to attach images to messages, because attaching Samsung .heic images don't successfully automatically convert to jpgs even though the app thinks they do.

Here is what the app wanted to pass to gmail.

Never mind the contents, that's a different bug. Today I'm just talkin about how you're not going to get Gmail to send a proper bug report like you expected...

It fails to create the expected mail body, etc.

intent:koras%40indywidualni.org#Intent;scheme=mailto;action=android.intent.action.SENDTO;launchFlags=0x13000000;S.android.intent.extra.SUBJECT=org.indywidualni.fblite%20Crash%20Report;S.android.intent.extra.TEXT=STACK_TRACE%3Djava.lang.RuntimeException%3A%20Unable%20to%20start%20activity%20ComponentInfo%7Borg.indywidualni.fblite%2Forg.indywidualni.fblite.activity.MainActivity%7D%3A%20java.lang.IllegalArgumentException%3A%20HTTP%20headers%20must%20not%20contain%20null%2C%20CR%2C%20or%20NL%20characters.%20Invalid%20User-Agent%20'Mozilla%2F5.0%20(BB10%3B%20Kbd)%20AppleWebKit%2F537.10%2B%20(KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko)%0AVersion%2F10.1.0.4633%20Mobile%20Safari%2F537.10%2B'%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java%3A4035)%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java%3A4201)%0A%09at%20android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java%3A103)%0A%09at%20android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java%3A135)%0A%09at%20android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java%3A95)%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread%24H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java%3A2438)%0A%09at%20android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java%3A106)%0A%09at%20android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java%3A226)%0A%09at%20android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java%3A313)%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java%3A8669)%0A%09at%20java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native%20Method)%0A%09at%20com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit%24MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java%3A571)%0A%09at%20com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java%3A1135)%0ACaused%20by%3A%20java.lang.IllegalArgumentException%3A%20HTTP%20headers%20must%20not%20contain%20null%2C%20CR%2C%20or%20NL%20characters.%20Invalid%20User-Agent%20'Mozilla%2F5.0%20(BB10%3B%20Kbd)%20AppleWebKit%2F537.10%2B%20(KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko)%0AVersion%2F10.1.0.4633%20Mobile%20Safari%2F537.10%2B'%0A%09at%20org.chromium.android_webview.AwSettings.g(chromium-TrichromeWebViewGoogle.aab-stable-506007130%3A711)%0A%09at%20com.android.webview.chromium.ContentSettingsAdapter.setUserAgentString(chromium-TrichromeWebViewGoogle.aab-stable-506007130%3A535)%0A%09at%20org.indywidualni.fblite.activity.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java%3A300)%0A%09at%20android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java%3A8290)%0A%09at%20android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java%3A8270)%0A%09at%20android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java%3A1329)%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java%3A4009)%0A%09...%2012%20more%0Ajava.lang.IllegalArgumentException%3A%20HTTP%20headers%20must%20not%20contain%20null%2C%20CR%2C%20or%20NL%20characters.%20Invalid%20User-Agent%20'Mozilla%2F5.0%20(BB10%3B%20Kbd)%20AppleWebKit%2F537.10%2B%20(KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko)%0AVersion%2F10.1.0.4633%20Mobile%20Safari%2F537.10%2B'%0A%09at%20org.chromium.android_webview.AwSettings.g(chromium-TrichromeWebViewGoogle.aab-stable-506007130%3A711)%0A%09at%20com.android.webview.chromium.ContentSettingsAdapter.setUserAgentString(chromium-TrichromeWebViewGoogle.aab-stable-506007130%3A535)%0A%09at%20org.indywidualni.fblite.activity.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java%3A300)%0A%09at%20android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java%3A8290)%0A%09at%20android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java%3A8270)%0A%09at%20android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java%3A1329)%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java%3A4009)%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java%3A4201)%0A%09at%20android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java%3A103)%0A%09at%20android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java%3A135)%0A%09at%20android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java%3A95)%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread%24H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java%3A2438)%0A%09at%20android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java%3A106)%0A%09at%20android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java%3A226)%0A%09at%20android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java%3A313)%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java%3A8669)%0A%09at%20java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native%20Method)%0A%09at%20com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit%24MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java%3A571)%0A%09at%20com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java%3A1135)%0A%0ACUSTOM_DATA%3D%0AAPP_VERSION_NAME%3D3.4.1%0ABRAND%3Dsamsung%0AUSER_COMMENT%3D%0AANDROID_VERSION%3D12%0APHONE_MODEL%3DSM-A136U%0A;end 
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ACTION: android.intent.action.SENDTO 
DATA: mailto:koras%40indywidualni.org 
URI: intent:koras%40indywidualni.org#Intent;scheme=mailto;action=android.intent.action.SENDTO;launchFlags=0x13000000;S.android.intent.extra.SUBJECT=org.indywidualni.fblite%20Crash%20Report;S.android.intent.extra.TEXT=STACK_TRACE%3Djava.lang.RuntimeException%3A%20Unable%20to%20start%20activity%20ComponentInfo%7Borg.indywidualni.fblite%2Forg.indywidualni.fblite.activity.MainActivity%7D%3A%20java.lang.IllegalArgumentException%3A%20HTTP%20headers%20must%20not%20contain%20null%2C%20CR%2C%20or%20NL%20characters.%20Invalid%20User-Agent%20'Mozilla%2F5.0%20(BB10%3B%20Kbd)%20AppleWebKit%2F537.10%2B%20(KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko)%0AVersion%2F10.1.0.4633%20Mobile%20Safari%2F537.10%2B'%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java%3A4035)%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java%3A4201)%0A%09at%20android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java%3A103)%0A%09at%20android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java%3A135)%0A%09at%20android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java%3A95)%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread%24H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java%3A2438)%0A%09at%20android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java%3A106)%0A%09at%20android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java%3A226)%0A%09at%20android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java%3A313)%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java%3A8669)%0A%09at%20java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native%20Method)%0A%09at%20com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit%24MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java%3A571)%0A%09at%20com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java%3A1135)%0ACaused%20by%3A%20java.lang.IllegalArgumentException%3A%20HTTP%20headers%20must%20not%20contain%20null%2C%20CR%2C%20or%20NL%20characters.%20Invalid%20User-Agent%20'Mozilla%2F5.0%20(BB10%3B%20Kbd)%20AppleWebKit%2F537.10%2B%20(KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko)%0AVersion%2F10.1.0.4633%20Mobile%20Safari%2F537.10%2B'%0A%09at%20org.chromium.android_webview.AwSettings.g(chromium-TrichromeWebViewGoogle.aab-stable-506007130%3A711)%0A%09at%20com.android.webview.chromium.ContentSettingsAdapter.setUserAgentString(chromium-TrichromeWebViewGoogle.aab-stable-506007130%3A535)%0A%09at%20org.indywidualni.fblite.activity.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java%3A300)%0A%09at%20android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java%3A8290)%0A%09at%20android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java%3A8270)%0A%09at%20android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java%3A1329)%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java%3A4009)%0A%09...%2012%20more%0Ajava.lang.IllegalArgumentException%3A%20HTTP%20headers%20must%20not%20contain%20null%2C%20CR%2C%20or%20NL%20characters.%20Invalid%20User-Agent%20'Mozilla%2F5.0%20(BB10%3B%20Kbd)%20AppleWebKit%2F537.10%2B%20(KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko)%0AVersion%2F10.1.0.4633%20Mobile%20Safari%2F537.10%2B'%0A%09at%20org.chromium.android_webview.AwSettings.g(chromium-TrichromeWebViewGoogle.aab-stable-506007130%3A711)%0A%09at%20com.android.webview.chromium.ContentSettingsAdapter.setUserAgentString(chromium-TrichromeWebViewGoogle.aab-stable-506007130%3A535)%0A%09at%20org.indywidualni.fblite.activity.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java%3A300)%0A%09at%20android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java%3A8290)%0A%09at%20android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java%3A8270)%0A%09at%20android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java%3A1329)%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java%3A4009)%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java%3A4201)%0A%09at%20android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java%3A103)%0A%09at%20android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java%3A135)%0A%09at%20android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java%3A95)%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread%24H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java%3A2438)%0A%09at%20android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java%3A106)%0A%09at%20android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java%3A226)%0A%09at%20android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java%3A313)%0A%09at%20android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java%3A8669)%0A%09at%20java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native%20Method)%0A%09at%20com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit%24MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java%3A571)%0A%09at%20com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java%3A1135)%0A%0ACUSTOM_DATA%3D%0AAPP_VERSION_NAME%3D3.4.1%0ABRAND%3Dsamsung%0AUSER_COMMENT%3D%0AANDROID_VERSION%3D12%0APHONE_MODEL%3DSM-A136U%0A;end 
FLAGS: 
FLAG_RECEIVER_FOREGROUND 
FLAG_ACTIVITY_FORWARD_RESULT 
FLAG_ACTIVITY_PREVIOUS_IS_TOP 
EXTRAS: 
1 Class: java.lang.String 
Key: android.intent.extra.SUBJECT 
Value: org.indywidualni.fblite Crash Report 
2 Class: java.lang.String 
Key: android.intent.extra.TEXT 
Value: STACK_TRACE=java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{org.indywidualni.fblite/org.indywidualni.fblite.activity.MainActivity}: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: HTTP headers must not contain null, CR, or NL characters. Invalid User-Agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (BB10; Kbd) AppleWebKit/537.10+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.0.4633 Mobile Safari/537.10+' 	at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:4035) 	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:4201) 	at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:103) 	at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:135) 	at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:95) 	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2438) 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106) 	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:226) 	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:313) 	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8669) 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:571) 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1135) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: HTTP headers must not contain null, CR, or NL characters. Invalid User-Agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (BB10; Kbd) AppleWebKit/537.10+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.0.4633 Mobile Safari/537.10+' 	at org.chromium.android_webview.AwSettings.g(chromium-TrichromeWebViewGoogle.aab-stable-506007130:711) 	at com.android.webview.chromium.ContentSettingsAdapter.setUserAgentString(chromium-TrichromeWebViewGoogle.aab-stable-506007130:535) 	at org.indywidualni.fblite.activity.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:300) 	at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:8290) 	at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:8270) 	at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1329) 	at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:4009) 	... 12 more java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: HTTP headers must not contain null, CR, or NL characters. Invalid User-Agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (BB10; Kbd) AppleWebKit/537.10+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.0.4633 Mobile Safari/537.10+' 	at org.chromium.android_webview.AwSettings.g(chromium-TrichromeWebViewGoogle.aab-stable-506007130:711) 	at com.android.webview.chromium.ContentSettingsAdapter.setUserAgentString(chromium-TrichromeWebViewGoogle.aab-stable-506007130:535) 	at org.indywidualni.fblite.activity.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:300) 	at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:8290) 	at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:8270) 	at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1329) 	at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:4009) 	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:4201) 	at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:103) 	at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:135) 	at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:95) 	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2438) 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106) 	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:226) 	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:313) 	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8669) 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:571) 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1135) CUSTOM_DATA= APP_VERSION_NAME=3.4.1 BRAND=samsung USER_COMMENT= ANDROID_VERSION=12 PHONE_MODEL=SM-A136U 

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MATCHING ACTIVITIES: 
Gmail (com.google.android.gm - com.google.android.gm.ComposeActivityGmailExternal) 

If one uses an illegal user agent string, for instance one with a new line embedded in it, the app won't be able to start. It'll crash upon start each time. Therefore one cannot get back in to clean up the illegal user-agent string. The only possibility is to wipe out the entire app's data just to fix this little problem.

It has been several years since there was any kind of update to this. During that time, Faceslim has developed several issues. Some of them being - Hamburger Menu on right side of Facebook page fails to open most of the time. This has been going on for a couple of years now. 98% of the time if I need to use it, I just use the browser. For some reason in Faceslim it just shows a blank window.

• Messages are very buggy. Many messages simply do not show up in there. I created a Group message, and later when I came back to the inbox, it was nowhere to be found. I could find it through search, but it doesn't show up in the list. Anytime someone in that group sends a reply, the group message refuses to show up in the inbox. Secondly, when you're in a message and press the back button, it completely skips the inbox and goes right back to the newsfeed. This is hella annoying.
• Suggested posts no longer getting blocked.
• Old issue... Pull to Refresh is way too sensitive. Many times when scrolling up a page and you get to the very top, the pull down refresh is already being dragged down. This pull-down refresh also gets easily pulled down when you are typing in a text box, such as that for a new post where the text box sits at the top of the screen. I try to scroll the text up to edit something and instead it pulls the page refresh arrow down and suddenly everything I wrote gets wiped.
• Various other issues

Faceslim is a seriously good application to navigate through facebooks wall of BS. I would like to support the dev here... but only if it's still being worked on. I hate to have to go looking for something else because FS is just THAT good. But it's just become quite buggy and because of Facebooks bullshit changes, it now could really use some patching up.

It would be great if FS could implement some of the functions that the Desktop browser extension Facebook Purity (Fluff) uses. I asked that dev if he would ever make some kind of mobile version of his extension and he had no plans to do so.