Here in black(!), see the various Facebook areas and navigation - the main function bar stays frozen and content scrolls under it, though the search field only shows at the very top of the scrolled pane.
It's Facebook with minimum hassle and bandwidth! It takes the full Facebook web experience, chops out all the rubbish, turns everything dark (if you want it), and quite a lot more besides. The original Facebook-scraper (though see the titles below), this is the best place to start. It's up to you.įacebook in Edge and (right) Edge via PAWA - in the latter you get better fonts and more screen real estate. In fact, you can get just a bit more screen real estate and convenience by turning the URL into an 'app' yourself with PAWA or just pin it 'as is' on your Start screen. Facebook is basically a web site (with added apps for convenience), so it's easy to access the main content in a web browser, even a mobile one here. Somewhat obvious, but it needs listing anyway. Happily, Facebook has to provide a low bandwidth way into its content via the Web and this can be used, either directly, or via a number of 'web-scraping' applications, listed below. Which leaves the issue of how to access Facebook without really using its own software. But that also doesn't mean that you have to put up with their client on Windows 10 Mobile being a buggy and resource-hungry mess (it crashes all the time, quite apart from being slow) or with their clients on iOS and Android doing unspeakable things with your data in the background.
For this reason, and also because lots of lesser web sites let you 'log in with Facebook', saving you having to make accounts for everything, I'd advise not leaving Facebook altogether. It's still loved by non-techy relatives, typically - we all have a cousin or grandparent who will only use it and it's our lifeline to what they're up to. Then there's the huge and growing lobby of tech-savvy people (myself included) who say that Facebook is the privacy-ignoring spawn of the devil - there have been so many issues around personal data being leaked that all sensible advice is to leave Facebook and never darken its doors again. If Facebook is indeed pulling these apps, after years of no updates and no optimisations, it's good riddance. Which is ridiculous for a social network based on status updates loaded online and with few internal graphic or media resources needed internally.
The 'Facebook' app in the Store at the moment is a whopping 168MB and takes about 15 seconds to launch on a Lumia 950. You may think I'm kidding about the bloat of Facebook's first party clients for Windows 10 Mobile, but I'm not.
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