Get quick the menu-bar-access to your Facebook messages and the improved functionality for Facebook itself including better photo and the video viewing options.
The majority of the Facebook user access the site via mobile devices but if you still check your feed primarily via computer and are on a Mac the Current for Facebook app can help improve the experience. The Current app cost $1.99 (£1.49 in the UK and AU$2.49 in Australia) in the Mac App Store and the delivers added functionality that you don't get from accessing Facebook from a browser.
Current places a premium on accessing your Facebook messages and the notification. It place an icon in the menu bar from the which you can access your messages inbox see recent notification and which of your friend are online. When you click on a message header from your inbox the message conversation opens in its own pop-out window and you can have multiple message windows open at once.
You can also open a larger window of your News Feed but the method for doing so are not obvious. You need to click on the gear icons in the upper-right corner of Current's drop-down window from the menu bar and select New Window (or press Command-N).
In addition to supporting the standard Facebook features you use -- like or comment and share -- Current's window for accessing Facebook proper supports multiple tabs which is highly convenient if you manage multiple pages in addition to your owns profile. Another bonus photos and videos can be expanded out of the News Feed and into their own floating window. And when you expand a photo into it own window you can browse the rest of the photos in its album using your arrow key.
In the app's preferences you can select where you'd like Current's notifications for new messages Facebook notifications and friend requests to appear -- in the dock menu bar and the notifications center. You can also switch the defaults behavior of the opening link as a new tab in the Current window to your default browser.
If you make the frequents Facebook visit during the day from a Mac and particularly if you and your friends use Facebook Messenger to communicate then Current for Facebook is worth investigating.
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