If you’re a Facebook user and wish there was something you could do to get back to your old Facebook layout, read on. There are various add-ons to the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers that will allow you to control the way you view Facebook. Here are two ways to go retro.
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Hide the News Ticker and Restore Your News Feed with Facebook Classic by Michael Donohoe. Add-on for Google Chrome browser. To compensate for the fact that it rearranges the order of your News Feed, Facebook now displays a constantly updated news “ticker” above the chat bar if you have it open, or the top right of your home page if you don’t. This continually updating stream is a source of annoyance to many, while the edited news feed itself makes many Facebook users apoplectic with rage. Facebook Classic will solve both these problems. In addition to nixing the ticker, it reverts your News Feed to chronological order. As a bonus, you can easily toggle it on and off. Find it in the Google Chrome store. Currently has 4.43 stars.
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Facebook Ticker Removal by Ashley. Add-on for Firefox brower. This add on removes the new Facebook ticker from the page, whether you have the right-hand side chat window open or not. Find it at https://addons.mozilla.org/. Currently has four stars.
Next month, we’ll share two more ways to “go retro” with Facebook. Although Facebook belongs to a corporation (at least until their IPO later this year!), we believe you should have the option to be in the driver’s seat. These apps will help you do just that.