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It appears that Facebook has stopped supporting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 browser, according to our friends at The Sociable.
While this isn’t surprising since the browser is five years old, it is a bit of a hack for those who would rather not use Facebook’s Timeline feature to browse the site. It’s not perfect though, since along with dropping Timeline, IE7 also screws up the page a bit with extra white space:
Once you get past all of that though, it’s the same old Facebook that we’ve used for years:
Even if you’re not a PC user, you can spoof your browser’s user agent to emulate IE7 quite easily with Safari.
Just go to Preferences > Advanced > Show Develop Menu In Bar
Once you do that, just click Develop and User Agent like so:
You can even clean up that ugly white space by installing a script called F.B. Purity. That’s a lot of work to get around having to see a Timeline on Facebook, but if you’re geeky, have the time and want the challenge, go for it!
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