Well, just as many of you, I dislike the new Facebook emojis quite a bit. So I made a browser extension that replaces it with regular old unicode emojis.
Doesn't work with the newer version of chat on Facebook.
I think this is clear?
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As you can see, from nice emojis, our conversation partner went online, that's a huge improvement!
- Download
no-facebook-emoji.safariextzfrom the releases - Open it in Safari
- Safari will prompt you to confirm the installation
- No more ugly emojis!
It will hopefully be available in the Safari Extensions Gallery soon.
Soon on the Chrome Web Store, now in the releases
- Download
chrome.crxfrom the releases - Go to chrome://extensions
- Drag that file onto your browser and click agree
This is mostly tested on OS X because that's what I have and that's the OS that has proper support for unicode emojis. Windows also has support for emojis but they are a single colour and not very pretty.
How to fix this? You can try setting Emoji One or another font as default. Some useful links:
Maybe, let me know
Browsers:
- Safari
- Google Chrome
- ... port the script yourself