Posted: 01/25/2012
BALTIMORE - Want your old Facebook back? It isn't exactly coming back, but here are several add-ons and extensions compiled by Mashable you can install and use to get some of its features back.
Add-ons for Firefox
Facebook Ticker Removal
Facebook Ticker Removal , a FireFox add-on, removes the Facebook ticker from the page.
Clean up Facebook Homepage
F.B. Purity by steev helps you hide application spam and other clutter from your homepage. It will also let you increase the font size.
View only your online friends in Facebook chat
Tidy Facebook Chat from Nicolas hides your offline friends. Is anyone ever really offline now, though?
Chrome add-ons
Kill Facebook Questions on Chrome
Hate answering questions about what you ate for lunch? This Google Chrome add-on from Aaron Godin will block the questions from showing up on your Facebook feed.
Look at photos the old way
The Revert FB Photo Viewer by Steve Gilberstson allows you switch off the new theater mode photo viewer.
The facebook Photo Theater Killer by Dave Harvey also lets you remove the photo theater and loads the old photo viewer in Chrome and Firefox.
Get back old Facebook Chat
Get Back Old Facebook Chat and Tick from fixingfacebook lets you disable the new Chat Sidebar.
Get comment button back
Matthew A. Kruse's Facebook Comment Fixer brings back the comment button and removes the feature that makes hitting the "ENTER" key submit your comment.
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