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How do I turn off Messenger's default browser?
Go to messenger, go to Photos & Media and switch on: "Open Links in Default Browser"
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Change Facebook (and others) photo saving folder
I had EXACTLY the same problem. I couldn't find a solution else where. The only solution was to use a .nomedia file in the /sdcard/DCIM/Facebook directory and moving the *.jpgs to another folder. I ...
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How to stop the Facebook app from updating itself automatically?
Update: The settings location was changed, now at:
Settings & Privacy --> Settings --> Media and Contacts --> App Updates --> Auto-Update Facebook
Open your Facebook mobile app and navigate to ...
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How do I turn off Messenger's default browser?
While this is a feature of the Facebook app itself, it appears there is no feature to do this with the current version of Facebook Messenger as of this answer (version 100.0.0.29.61).
The only ...
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Facebook mobile website tries to open Messenger all the time
Facebook started forcing this change a couple of months ago. There's nothing anyone can do about it. I find it rather annoying myself which is why I switched to a Facebook wrapper app like Swipe
It ...
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Is it possible to install android app directly from facebook ad click
No, if you want user to have an apk installed from playstore. It has to go through play store app. Only other way I can think of is to make user download an apk file of your application from your ...
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How to sync Facebook calendar in my Android phone calendar?
Of course Facebook likes so much to break compatibility with whatever it ever developed... so now the method is different:
On Web Facebook, choose the event you want to have in the Calendar
Set the ...
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How do I temporarily disable an app when there is no "Disable" option
Manual methods might be tricky here. I'd recommend taking a look at Greenify, which will take care for such apps automatically (after you've told it so – you're the boss after all ;)
Greenify (...
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How to change the thumbs up icon in Facebook Messenger chat?
Using Facebook Messenger, at the conversation window, go to:
Details (top-right) --> Emoji --> Pick your Emoji.
There's no option to change Emoji using the web version yet.
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Can I, simultaneously, run two instances of the Facebook app?
You can use two Facebook account in a single Facebook application. For that you have to install first an application Parallel Space
that is easy available from Google Play.
There you will get an ...
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Facebook mobile website tries to open Messenger all the time
Try using https://mbasic.facebook.com
It's not as pretty and you have to click "See Older Messages" and "See Newer Messages" a lot, but it's quite functional and fast.
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How can I prevent an application (Chrome) from opening another application (Google Play Store)?
This worked for me: Navigate to
https://www.facebook.com/deactivate/
and delete your account, then don't ever visit the site again.
Facebook never opened the Play Store ever since, so I suppose ...
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How do I turn off Messenger's default browser?
Not sure if you figured this out or not, or maybe they fixed it, but I figured it out. Open messenger. In the far upper right corner, tap the silhouette icon that takes you to your profile. Scroll ...
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How can I remove these apps from my device?
You can't remove those apps from firmware without root but you can uninstall any system app for current user or any user using ADB.
Assuming ADB is installed and PATH is set if not you can do it with ...
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Facebook stuck notification "cast device not connected"
Quoted from Lifehacker, referencing Android Police:
If you’re using the Facebook app—and there are plenty of reasons not to—you might have noticed a weird, broken Chromecast notification in your ...
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Change Facebook (and others) photo saving folder
Anyone else looking this in the future and don't know how to use Tasker or find it difficult to understand.
Download this app.
Go to organizer section.
Make a service job to move files as soon they ...
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How can I prevent an application (Chrome) from opening another application (Google Play Store)?
"Request desktop site" works (for now)...
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Facebook contact sync, third party or otherwise
As of now, there is no official way to see your Facebook friends on your phone's contacts app.
There might be some hacks to get it done though, with some risky apps, which I strongly discourage using....
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GS6 (Android 5.1.1) lost synchronizaton with Facebook contacts
For what it's worth, Facebook has removed the contacts sync functionality.
Supplementary info
Under the Facebook's Community questions, I found these two:
Sync Contacts with phone? - by Justin ...
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Hiding device name from website
About user-agent
If you're referring to hiding your user-agent, this can easily be done. Your user-agent is a short piece of text your browser automatically transmits to the server when you request ...
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Stop Facebook and Instagram from running in background
Applications like Facebook messenger, always leave a few processes and services running in the background. Even using task killers is not very effective in preventing them from running, because soon ...
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Send Shift+Enter to Facebook comment field?
The Google keyboard has a "newline" key (looks like an arrow with a 90 degree angle) that appears only when you enter "shift" mode (eg when you want to key in a capital letter). In this mode, the ...
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Facebook mobile website tries to open Messenger all the time
If you don't want to install another app, there's a way around it. Although not elegant, you can tell Chrome to "Request desktop site" from the device's menu button. Have to manually change the URL ...
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Facebook mobile website tries to open Messenger all the time
Just realized I was responding to the duplicate question, but here's another solution: Use Adblock Browser. It's a free browser that disables a lot of ads, and even though some mobile sites might act ...
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How can I prevent an application (Chrome) from opening another application (Google Play Store)?
Depending on what version of android you are on you can clear the defaults of the play store so that it won't open up the play store when you click on a google play link from anywhere in android.
The ...
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Can I safely delete .facebook_cache folder if I don't have a Facebook app installed?
Quoting from Mathew Read's answer here
Cache is temporary files. One example might be thumbnails for contacts in a social media app. These can be cleared without any major effect — the app can just ...
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Is there a way to post a photo on Facebook on Android without using the Facebook app?
You can create an IFTTT account and connect your Facebook account to it (ifttt.com).
Then you install the app from play store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ifttt.ifttt).
Here's ...
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How can I view my facebook email address?
From your last image, click General, it contains your basic information, like name, email, phone number, networks, and inactive account management person.
The full path to this from the Facebook app ...
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How can I remove these apps from my device?
You cannot uninstall them as they are system apps. But if you can root your device then you can permanently uninstall them and all other bloatwares.
You can root your device by installing Magisk (...
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Excessive "sponsored ads" in FB Lite on one of two tablets
The major benefit of the Android OS is that, usually, there are more than just one app to accomplish a certain task.
This is also the case with Metal for Facebook, a wrapper for the site, giving the ...
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