Sunday, July 31, 2011

How to get Facebook old Chat Bar

Facebook  changed some of the features such as video calling. In the part of this recently facebook old chat bar style changed to something new. For them who don't like this feature can return to the old facebook chat box. There are some disadvantages by using new chat side bar.

Disadvantages of New Chat Bar:
  • You have to manually disable the side bar chat every time you login
  • Only shows a list of people you interact the most even if they are offline or online
  • Unordered list of people online and offline. They are not sorted in any manner
How to revert the old Facebook Chat Bar:

The following steps are used to revert the old facebook chat bar
  • Login to your facebook account
  • open new tab
  • open the link http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php
  • You are done to get the classic and old facebook chat box
By using this method you have to always open that link in new tab for every time, so the new solution for this is given below
  • Open Firefox and click on Bookmarks button
  • Go with organize Bookmarks then new Book mark and do the following settings                                  
               * Name: Anything
               * URL : http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php
               * Check on load this book mark in side bar.

After this process whenever you want to chat just press "ctrl+b"

To install it on Google Chrome Browser:
  1. Click on the link http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/107159  and press install button which is on the top right corner
  2. Install the script and it will execute automatically.
To install it on Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  1. Download and install Grease Monkey add-on and then restart the browser Firefox
  2. Visit website http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/107159 and then click on the install button
  3. Wait for few seconds click on the install button
  4. Restart Firefox and login to Facebook account.
By implementing the above steps you can get the old facebook chat bar on different browsers. The people who are interesting in the old chat bar go through the above appropriate steps.

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