Facebook has started rolling out several new design changes (redesigned news feed, privacy settings, floating top bar) and features (live feed ticker and subscriptions) in the past couple of days. These changes were being tested among a small number of users for many days, but now they are live across the site. If you don’t see it yet, just wait a while.
As usual many users are annoyed with the new changes in Facebook chat. If you share similar feelings, here I will show you some ways to hide the live feed ticker and disable the floating top bar.
Update: Here is the best solution yet: Facebook Chat Cleaner. It is a light-weight userscript for Chrome, Firefox and Opera. It hides the new Ticker along with all offline friends. In a way, it brings back the old Facebook chat we all loved.
Facebook Chat Cleaner
No settings or configurations needed. Install it, and you are good to go.
Install: Facebook Chat Cleaner
With an extension like AdBlock, you can easily hide or remove the “Live Ticker”. Below you can see the result:
Hide Facebook Ticker
I’m assuming you have AdBlock extension installed, if not you can get it from the official repository for both Chrome and Firefox. Once installed, go to its settings page and click on ‘Customize’ tab. Under filters section, add these two filters:
www.facebook.com##[id="pagelet_rhc_ticker"] www.facebook.com##[id="pagelet_ticker"]
That will remove the ticker from your sidebar chat and from the homepage. Facebook keeps on changing things, so if the above filters doesn’t work for you, manually block it by selecting “block an ad on this page” option available in the AdBlock extension.
If you use only Chrome browser, you can hide the ticker and disable the floating bar with an extension called Unannoying Facebook.
Hide Facebook Live Ticker on Homepage
Another way to hide the ticker is by installing the “Better Facebook” extension, available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera. Once you have it installed on your browser, click on the “Better Facebook! Options” button.
Enable “Advanced Options Mode” and then click on CSS. Paste the following CSS snippet to the area provided.
/* Hide Facebook live ticker */
.ticker_stream { display:none !important; }
Save the settings and refresh page to see the changes.
Do note, filters or extensions won’t prevent your information from being displayed on your friends ticker. Those methods are only good for you. But still, you can take some measures to stop unwanted updates from popping up on your friends ticker by adjusting your privacy settings.
For instance, if you don’t want your friends to know a certain app you are using then just go to your account’s app settings page and change the particular app’s ’App activity privacy’ option to ‘Only Me’.
Facebook App privacy
Download: Unannoying Facebook
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Ok, so now that Firefox is in the new version 7.0 after the update today, Ad Block is incompatible, so this does not work. Any other fixes for the ticker? I was really enjoying not having it. Thank you for all the fixes you provide for many different things. Your site is one I consult on a regular basis.
Hi Patty, Adblock has been updated and is now compatible with Firefox 7.0.
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Great “hacks”. Can I share this article on my blog?
Sure, but do remember to give credit.
Thank you!! As of last night it was still incompatible. I am now “ticker free” again. Appreciate this!
Is it possible to adblock the Games feed bar? I’m starting to think it lags my games.
Yes, you can block it. In fact, with Adblock you can block every element you find annoying on a webpage.
it works thanks alot!
I’m having trouble blocking the ads on the right side of the page on Facebook. Any idea what the filter should be? Thank you!
There’s no need to explicitly block Facebook ads. The extension should do that for you as it is a “ad blocker”. If it’s not, you can use the “block an ad on this page” option to do so.
I tried that and I tried right clicking and it would only block the images and then it made everyones profile pictures disappear. The ads are ajax, so there was no option to block any of them. I actually took your advice above and downloaded better Facebook and the ad section on the right is now gone. Thank you so much for the help with all of this. Hope you have a great weekend!
Renji, thank you SO MUCH for the AdBlock filters! Is there one for the Game Feed ticker which appears on the right side of the Facebook page when one is playing a game such as FarmVille? If you hover your mouse over it, it turns the entire screen WHITE and is even more annoying than the Live Feed Ticker. Thanks!!
Found this filter in the Adblock forums and it seems to be working in Firefox: facebook.com##.fixedAux
Hi Renji, I just found this article, thanks! Just one question, I use Opera but I can’t find the “Advanced Options Mode” needed to paste that piece of CSS. Where should I look?
Thanks,
Ashley
Hi Ashley, Better Facebook extension now has built-in feature to disable the ticker. So, that CSS is no longer needed.
As you couldn’t find the advanced mode option, I think you have the “Better Facebook 2″ extension installed, right? If yes, uninstall it and head over to betterfacebook.net. From there, install the Opera version of the extension. That’s the “Better Facebook” mentioned here.
Hi Renji,
As far as I know, I don’t have *anything* installed right now, but I’ll see if I can work it out
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Thank you this worked. I just hope that ticker stays away. I was wondering if there is a way to get the old facebook chat back? Thank you again.
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i’m looking to get it – it disappeared suddenly – alone – and I’m looking to return it – how to do it??? I’d love to get help here::))
Thanks for the ticker!!!!
But how can I fix this annoying floating top blue bar? There is a solution only for Chrome users and nothing about Mozilla… I looked in the options and also searched for some CSS snippet but found nothing.
hi, when i click on “Install: Facebook Chat Cleaner”. Frefox simply opens the script as text. Nothing happens. I have vista and FF 11.0. Any suggestions? bye
Do you have the Greasemonkey Add-on installed? If not, install it from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/, and then try installing the script again.
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