Over the past year, Facebook’s popularity has continued to increase to the point where it almost rivals MySpace. As a result, I decided it was a good time to get around to compiling a list of the best tools and resources available for Facebook users.

In this list you’ll find all sorts of tools, including Firefox extensions and Greasemonkey scripts that were designed to improve your Facebook experience. If you are looking for a compilation of the best Facebook applications, those will be available here shortly.

Facebook Firefox Extensions

• Auto Slideshow – Displays current page images in a slideshow.
• Boost for Facebook – Adds Facebook-specific features to Firefox, including skins, notifications, auto-poke, auto-login, friends in your sidebar and much more.
• Facebar – Facebook toolbar with automatic login, search and quick links.
• Facebook HugBack – All our pokes display as “hugs”.  This is visible only to you, not any of your friends.
• Facebook Photo Album Downloader – Download entire albums from Facebook with a single click.
• Firefox Toolbar – Adds Facebook search and activity notifications to Firefox. Also view friends and share content without visiting Facebook itself.
• Firefox Universal Uploader – Tool to upload and download images to Facebook.
• Notre Dame Facebook Style – Custom “University of Notre Dame” style that adds a custom header and theme to all Facebook pages.
  

Facebook Greasemonkey Scripts

• Cipher’s Facebook Remove Ads – Removes all the ads.
• Facebook Age Checker – Automatically converts the birthdays listed on Facebook to an age, saving you the math.
• Facebook AIM status icon – Shows when your Facebook friends are logged in to AIM.
• Facebook Auto-Colorizer – Changes the pages colors to match the dominant colors in the picture on each profile page.
• Facebook Auto-Login v2 – Automatically logs you in to Facebook.
• Facebook Events In Google Calendar – Adds your Facebook events to your Google calendar automatically.
• Facebook Fixer – Makes profile pictures larger, shows additional menu items, adds people’s age to their profiles, and changes redirected links to direct links.
• Facebook Friend Menu – Puts some of the most common tasks into a drop down menu.
• Facebook MessageSaver – Tired of accidentally losing a message before sending it? This will help prevent that problem.
• FacebookPedia – Shows Wikipedia links to Facebook interests when you hover over them.
• Facebook Poke O’ Matic – Gives you the ability to poke all your friends at once.
• Facebook Refresh – Will reload walls, news feeds, alerts, and your inbox automatically.
• Facebook Remove Feed Advertisements – Removes the feed advertisements on your Facebook feed.
• Facebook View Photo in Album – Adds a button above pictures to see them in their albums.
• No Facebook Apps -Makes it so you don’t have to see facebook apps when you view Facebook profiles.

Facebook Desktop Applications

• BeepMe – Stay logged in, but not have the site open. Configure what you want to be notified of, and this sits in your start tray letting you know when you have received new items.
• Dashboard Widget – For use with Mac OS X, notifies you of messages and more.
• fbquick – Desktop application to notify you of wall posts, pokes, messages, events, photo tags, friend requests, group invites, and shares.
• fbTrayNotify – Shows popup balloons to notify you of events on Facebook such as messages and pokes.
• Simple Photo Uploader – Allows you to bulk upload photos to your albums.
• The SocialBar –Internet Explorer Toolbar for FB – A Facebook toolbar for use with Internet Explorer.

Facebook Generators

• Facebook Blast – Has a large collection of Facebook generators available.

Facebook Tools

• TagSnag – Free tool that allows you to download and save to your computer all of the pictures other people have tagged of you on Facebook. This prevents you from tediously having to save the pictures one by one.