Classic Facebook or the old Facebook layout is going away and lots of people aren’t happy with the new layout because it’s slow.
Like really, really slow.
Here’s how to get the old layout back even if facebook removed the option for you.
Facebook isn’t making the transition to the new layout a happy one and removed the option for most of us to use the old, snappy layout.
If you’re like me and this is what you see (with the option to use Classic facebook no longer an option) you can use browser extensions to force this behavior.
Minor caveat, if you are on a computer that has this blocked (installing extensions) then you can’t use this method but 99% of the time, you should be able to do this.
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-layout-for-facebook/
Once installed, you get old facebook back:
Another minor caveat: this is only possible because it’s still available on facebook, once they remove it entirely, we are locked in on the new layout until a new solution arises.
