Facebook recently released a new homepage ticker which, for some, is not a welcome change. Well, you can hide the ticker by using a custom style sheet in the Safari web browser. By creating your own style sheet, you can override the tickerActivityStories class defined in Facebook’s CSS and hide the ticker.
Step 1: Open up a text editor like TextEdit, BBEdit, TextMate, etc. Place the following CSS code in the document:
.tickerActivityStories {
height: 0;
display: none;
}
Step 2: Save the document as a text file and name it, fb_styles.css (you can name it anything you want, just make sure it has the ‘.css’ extension.)
Step 3: Open Safari and go to Preferences/Advanced. From the Style Sheet drop down menu select ‘Other…’ and choose the fb_styles.css file. Quit Safari and then reopen it.
That’s it. The ticker should vanish from the sidebar the when you are on Facebook.
Note: This only works in Apple’s Safari browser. If your browser supports custom style sheets, then these instructions may work for you. Additionally, browser plugins exist that can do the same thing.
