Desktop Browser for Facebook app review: access the desktop version of Facebook

Introduction

Desktop Browser for Facebook is a great iPad app for those of you who are sick and tired of the oh-so-cumbersome official Facebook app, providing a neat and unique way for you to access the full desktop version of Facebook in the palm of your hand.

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As someone who has experienced a great deal of frustration at the hands of the Facebook app, I must say that I think this is an absolutely fantastic idea for an app, and one that has been executed with a surprising amount of efficacy.

Use Desktop Facebook On Your iPad

To put it quite simply, this app has been designed to provide you with a cool way of accessing the full desktop version of Facebook on your iPad, with more or less all of the functionality remaining intact.

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The mobile version of Facebook, besides dropping pages and crashing from time to time, is obviously not as extensively featured as the desktop version, especially when it comes to certain areas of account management. Desktop Browser for Facebook seems to provide a great solution to this.

 

Enjoy Rapidity and Consistency

You can fully customize the color scheme of the homepage to get things looking exactly how you want them, and the content actually appears to load a fair amount faster than the official Facebook app.

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I should probably refine my last statement to say that it loads pages rapidly with far greater consistency than the official app.

 

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Access the full desktop version of Facebook with your iOS device
• Enjoy far more extensive functionality and account access than with the standard Facebook app
• Customize the color scheme of the homepage to get things exactly how you want them
• Use the handy Toggle button to quickly switch between desktop and mobile versions of Facebook
• Appears to provide far greater reliability (less crashing) than the official Facebook app

Cons

• This app has been very well received by users; however, there is one comment that I feel is worth sharing: “This app here is not perfect, but it is very close! I wanted to give it 5 stars, but the inability to download pics and option to open links in Safari was worth a star to me..... That said, this app does so much, and faster and no hang ups like the official app and pages online do! Amazing! And, it is only one of few that gets ALL notifications and shows them in timely manner.”

 

Final Words

I like Desktop Browser for Facebook a lot, and if you’re still not convinced then you might like to know that there is also a Toggle button that you can tap to quickly switch between desktop and mobile versions of Facebook. Perfect for when you just have to see content in a more familiar format!