So less clutter at the top, a cleaner layout overall, plus a lot of lesser navigation functions on the hamburger menu, shown on the right here. Note in particular that you're still going to m., but it's being interpreted in slightly more sophisticated fashion because Facebook's server knows that you're using something (in theory) higher end. In Edge, go into '.' and Settings and then pick 'Desktop version'. So that's two views of the basic Facebook site with full access, but you can go further (with just one caveat) with a hack of sorts.

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. Directly, in Edge(!)įacebook 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. 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. Which leaves the issue of how to access Facebook in 2020, especially under Windows 10 Mobile. 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. And good riddance.īut Facebook does have its uses. The 'Facebook' app in the Store was a whopping 168MB and took about 15 seconds to launch on a Lumia 950. Oops.īy the way, you may have thought I was kidding about the bloat of Facebook's old first party clients for Windows 10 Mobile, but I'm not. It's now available for all Windows 10 devices and even installs on W10M, but it doesn't actually run and connect up. Plus there's a new Instagram PWA incoming from Facebook, which will hopefully work as well as the one Twitter put up online and in the Store. In theory, there's the excellent third party Winsta UWP, though it's currently a bit unstable and I'll report more on that in the Flow columns here on AAWP. Instagram is totally separate, mind you, effectively a fairly recent Facebook acquisition. So it does perhaps pay to keep an eye on Facebook messenger too, even if you're not a heavy user! Messenger is particularly important for many people, especially for intra-family communication - I've lost count of the number of times a member has said 'Did you not get my message?' and it turned out they'd got confused and sent it by Facebook Messenger rather than Messages or iMessage (or whatever).

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