To customize your Facebook page and add new features, Google’s Chrome browser offers a variety of Facebook-themed extensions to suit your needs. From changing colors and background images to zooming in on photos or blocking ads, there is an extension for everyone.

Here is just a handful of the Facebook-inspired extensions that are available.

Zoom in on Facebook photos

When you are scrolling through your News Feed, Photo Zoom makes it much easier to view photos on a larger scale. Once you install the Photo Zoom extension, you can simply hover over any Facebook profile picture or a specific photo in an album with your mouse and the selected photo will become larger.

Download Photo Zoom for Facebook from the Chrome Web Store.

Add a background image to your Facebook page

The Fabulous: Facebook Color & Background extension gives you access to a variety of features so that you can customize your page. Features include the ability to create a theme, add a background image, customize colors, hide ads, blocks sponsored stories, to name just a few.

Download Fabulous from the Chrome Web Store.

Spice up your Facebook page with a color change

Facebook Color Changer allows you to customize your page and choose from a variety of colors to suit your style.

Download Facebook Color Changer from the Chrome Web Store.

Add more emoticons to your messages

If you love emoticons then you will want to install the Facebook Secret Emoticons extension. When you have installed the extension, click the subtle smiley face icon in your Facebook status/comment box and a broad range of secret emoticons will open up.

Download Facebook Secret Emoticons from the Chrome Web Store.

Customize your Facebook Page

Social Fixer adds a variety of functionality to allow you to customize your Facebook page to suit your personal needs. You can change the way posts look in your News Feed, hide posts you have already read, have quick links to My Pages, My Groups, etc., and enjoy enhanced navigation, among other things.

Download Social Fixer for Facebook from the Chrome Web Store.

Get rid of all your Facebook Messages

The Facebook – Delete all Messages extension adds a page action in the Facebook Messages tab so that you can delete all your old messages.

Download Facebook – Delete all Messages from the Chrome Web Store.

Switch off read receipts on messages

Read receipts on messages can be handy, but it can also put you under pressure to respond quickly. Facebook Unseen will disable read receipts and gives you control allowing you to manually mark a message as ‘read’.

Download Facebook Unseen from the Chrome Web Store.

Remove annoying ads from your Facebook page

Facebook Flat provides you with a stripped down, slicker version of Facebook. It removes ads from your page and cleans up your page’s left-hand navigation, by consolidating categories like groups, pages and apps.

Download Facebook Flat from the Chrome Web Store.

Remove all distractions from Facebook

Like Facebook Flat above, Facebook Customizer (from Adblock Plus) will remove all the ads and annoyances from your Facebook page. With a simple click, you can remove all 21 unwanted distractions from your page.

Download Facebook Customizer from the Chrome Web Store.

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