“Old Layout” browser extension is an escape hatch for Facebook's hated redesign
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Billions of people around the world will soon be forced into Facebook's newly redesigned layout, and based on the outcry already, many will hate it (typical).
For over a decade, I've been empowering internet users through software, allowing them to take control and use sites as they wish, rather than how the site creators wish.
"Old Layout" is my new extension that reverts Facebook to the old layout, even if you've been forcibly switched to the new one.
It does this by pretending to be an older browser - one which Facebook has determined it can't support in the new layout. So, it serves you the old one instead! It's not perfect, but most users will not experience any problems or differences from the experience they are used to.
At some point, Facebook may remove this fallback option. But until/unless that happens, users can once again use the site in the way that they wish.