Get rid of the new Facebook chat
FB introduced the new FB chat a while back and I for one liked it at first, but then started suspecting that it's not working properly. I mean the old one wasn't that good either, but I had this feeling that it didn't have all my onlinle friends available for chat and it always seemed to have the same people listed on it. And you're not able to scroll down the online list, instead you just have the whole FB page scrolling down.
No FB, bad FB!
I figured that the "hide sidebar" would probably work, but no. Nothing happened and it kept coming back if I wanted to use chat. That "hide" only hid the whole chat option. So I came around this fix that I found @ Digiupdates (don't install the Enhancer, follow steps below instead).
If you're a Firefox user like myself, this is simple:
1. Just install the Grease Monkey extension.
2. Hit the "Add to Firefox" button. A box will open up asking to install it. Click "Install Now".
3. Restart Firefox as requested.
4. Go to Facebook Sidebar Chat Reversion plugin page.
5. Reload and if necessary, relogin to FB to have the old FB chat back!
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July 20th, 2011 - 11:28
If you wish to make it a bit taller, edit the script through Grease Monkey. Here’s my example:
FIND: fbChatSidebar{height:800px!
EDIT: change the numeral value to whatever you like
FIND: .fbChatSidebarBody{height:800px!
EDIT: change the numeral value to whatever you like
FIND: .fbChatSidebarBody{height:744px!
EDIT: change the numeral value to whatever you like
July 20th, 2011 - 17:53
I’ve only heard of 1 or 2 people that actually like the new chat sidebar. I hope they change it back to how it was because now I can’t really see who’s online without a lot more steps.
@Daigle Thanks for the thing about how to change the height. The one thing I’d like for the script is if it would adjust automatically up to a certain height. It’s open source so somebody will probably change it around but I don’t know how to do javascript :)
July 20th, 2011 - 18:03
No problem. I’m glad I could help. The chat bar isn’t working 100% as the bottom (tab to hide and show) is lost somewhere. But it’s better than the default FB chat :D