Do you hate the Facebook news ticker on the side of the page? Do you wish the chat sidebar didn’t exist and want to hide it? Do you want to give Facebook a cleaner look? Are you disgusted by the Facebook timelines? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, you’re not alone. Many Facebook users are not happy with the new designs and features that are regularly added.

So whether you’re looking to remove specific sections from Facebook and clean up the UI, add some enhancements, or revert back to the original days of the popular social network, these Chrome extensions can help. You can use the comparison table below to compare features and find the tool that’s best for you.

Comparison Table

Service	Removes Timeline	Removes Ticker	Removes Chat	Themes & Background	Image Zoom	Enhanced Photo View	Removes Ads
Facebook-Beautifier	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
F.B. Purity	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes
Beautify FB	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Alwittizer Facebook Enhancer	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
SocialReviver	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
SocialPlus! for Facebook	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Pretty Facebook Chat	No	No	No	No	YNo	No	No
Facebook Clear	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Kill Facebook Questions	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
FB Refresh	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Hate Facebook Chat Sidebar	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Facebook News Ticker Remover	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Social Fixer	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Classic for Facebook	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
No Theater Facebook Image Gallery	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Facebook Timeline Remover and Disabler	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Facebook Layouts and FB Skins	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Facebook Themes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Facebook Background Changer	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Facebook Colour Changer	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Service	Removes Timeline	Removes Ticker	Removes Chat	Themes & Background	Image Zoom	Enhanced Photo View	Removes Ads

Chrome Extensions

UI Customization

Facebook-Beautifier

If you love the new Facebook timeline, you can give the rest of Facebook that same type of look with this extension.

F.B. Purity

Cleans up the Facebook news feed and removes the “junk” (app spam) that you don’t want. A few of the message types that you can hide are: questions, liked pages, events, updated profile, relationship changes, commented on and liked statuses, photo uploads, photos tagged in, fan page updates, group wall comments and so much more.

F.B. Purity really makes your news feed cleaner and a joy to read. This extension also gives you the ability to hide elements in the sidebars like events, the sponsored box, suggestions and the chat. There are many other features as well, which makes it the ultimate tool for cleaning up and customizing Facebook.

Beautify FB

This extension adds enhancements and audio notifications and can remove the sidebar elements that you don’t want. There are also style settings that can be used to customize the background, menu bar and sidebars.

Alwittizer Facebook Enhancer

With this extension you’ll get bigger profile pictures, photo zoom, a fixed left filter list, bottom menu bar transparency, highlighted birthdays and more.

SocialReviver

Allows you to customize Facebook in various ways such as: disabling timelines, removing the chat sidebar, using friend lists in chat, disabling “read” notification in chat, changing the top navigation to the old style and more.

SocialPlus! for Facebook

This extension adds seven new features to Facebook: video chat, status messages in color, profile backgrounds, a dislike button, emoticons, a nudge button and photo previews.

Pretty Facebook Chat

Beautifies Facebook chat by making it bigger, adding animation, and including an emoticon window with even more smilies and icons for you to use. You can customize the size of the chat window along with the font family of your text.

Facebook Clear

Gives the Facebook UI a minimal look. Plus it also blocks ads, beautifies photos, and gives Facebook a speed boost.

Kill Facebook Questions

Removes questions from the news feed. You can also try Hide FB Questions, which does the same thing.

FB Refresh

Takes out the default design of Facebook’s login page so that you can add your own custom design or background image. There’s also a built-in theme editor, the ability to change the Facebook logo from light to dark, built-in image search for finding the perfect background and more.

Hate Facebook Chat Sidebar

The title says it all, if you hate the Facebook chat sidebar then use this extension to remove/hide it. If you just hate the new chat sidebar and want to bring back the old chat style, the Get Back Old Facebook Chat and Ticker Disabler extension can take care of that for you.

Facebook News Ticker Remover

Removes/hides the news ticker from the right side of Facebook. You may also want to try Hide Facebook SideBar Ticker or Facebook Ticker Killer, which both do the same exact thing.

Social Fixer

An advanced extension that improves the overall look of Facebook. Features include: tabbed news feeds, themes/skins, advanced feed filters, enlarged thumbnails on hover, new comments highlighted, a notification when someone removes you as a friend, pinned notifications and much more.

Classic for Facebook

Not only does this extension hide the news ticker, but it also reverts the news feed back to chronological  order and hides the triangular blue corner tabs in each item. You can also toggle the news ticker on/off whenever you like, via a link. Simple Facebook is a similar extension that removes the ticker and gives Facebook a simpler look via a few extra removals.

No Theater Facebook Image Gallery

Removes the theater mode of image galleries and brings back the old way of viewing images. You may also want to try Revert FB Photo Viewer, which also disables theater mode.

Facebook Timeline Remover & Disabler

Removes and disables the new Facebook timeline, thus reverting Facebook profiles back to the old layout. Best of all, you can go back to timeline whenever you feel like it by clicking on the extension’s browser icon. Another option is TimelineRemove, which works in the same way.

Themes

Facebook Layouts and FB Skins

With this extension you can customize the overall look of the homepage and profile pages, and add some color via layouts and skins. Facebook Layouts and FB Skins works (and looks) much like the old days of MySpace and Friendster profiles; you can create a lot of unique looks.

If you want to add a pre-made theme there are three separate extensions that will do just that: Facebook Theme: Basic Minimalist Black, Facebook Theme: Timeline Dark, and Facebook Theme: Dark Everplex.

Facebook Themes

Provides a gallery of themes that you can use to change the color scheme of Facebook. You may also want to try a similar extension called Facebook Stylist, which allows personal customization.

Facebook Background Changer

Changes the Facebook background and includes color schemes. You can drag-and-drop images from your computer to use as a background, add image effects, change the transparency and more. This extension can save up to three of your recently used backgrounds in history, in case you want to revert back.

Facebook Colour Changer

Changes the color scheme to any two colors that you choose via a color picker. Just click on the extension’s icon in the address bar. You can easily revert Facebook back to default by with the click of a link under the color picker.

Conclusion

Do you use any Chrome extensions or other browser extensions/plugins/add-ons to customize Facebook? If so, which ones do you use?

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