Facebook is quite nervous after the launch of Google+ and is releasing new updates after every few days. Recently Facebook has made few more changes to its design. Out of which two changes are annoying and are criticized by the users. These two changes are fixed top blue bar and real-time news ticker in the sidebar.
Real time news ticker shows the real-time updates of your friends in the sidebar. Whenever a friend of yours comments, like or uploads a new photo, a new update is shown in the news ticker. There is no official way to hide this new feature. However if you use Google chrome as your browser then you can turn these two features off.
Unannoying Facebook is a Chrome extension that removes the news ticker from sidebar and also removes the fixed top blue bar.
Unannoying Facebook
If you just want to remove the news ticker from sidebar and want to keep the new top blue bar then you can install Facebook News Ticker Remover extension.
Facebook News Ticker Remover
Nice find simran..i heard that we can get the old fb layout by changing the language to English(UK) ..is it true?? and working now also??
My FB account’s language is already set to English(UK) and still these features are live on my account so I don’t think that this method will work.
Real time ticker shows the update of your friends in the side bar. Thanks a lot for sharing your post on here 🙂
In Google chrome extension that removes the stickers from side bar and then fixed top blue bar on here. Its really info on here too 🙂
thanks simar for this article
Thanks Simrandeep I am searching this for a while, now i can remove those and bring back Blue Bar, Thanks for the great Tips