How-To: Remove Facebook’s New Real-Time Ticker (Right Sidebar)

Here’s a quick and extremely simple Google Chrome extension I made to hide the annoying Facebook real-time ticker on the right sidebar. It shouldn’t require any specific permissions to run it. To be perfectly honest, you don’t really need this extension if you already have the Adblock extension installed. You can use Adblock’s “Block an ad on this page” feature to remove the real-time ticker.

Feel free to run a virus scan even though I did not include anything malicious and it’s not an executable.

Update (21/09/11): My Facebook page has recently been updated to the new layout for the second time (after it was briefly reverted back to the old layout) and thus, I have updated “Derpbook” (due to lack of a better name) to version 1.2. You are not required to update it (although, there’s auto-update in place) as the old version still works fine besides the fact it leaves a huge gap/space where the real-time ticker is supposed to be. This problem should be eradicated in version 1.2. If there are any problems, feel free to report them via the comment section below.

Download Extension (Version 1.2)

Best of luck!
Ian