The easiest way (which is also the way that worked the best for me) is using AdBlock on Firefox or Chrome, and adding the following filter in the customise tab.
www.facebook.com##[id="pagelet_rhc_ticker"]www.facebook.com##[id="pagelet_ticker"]
Then, refresh Facebook and you should be in business.
If you have Chrome, you can also install Unannoying Facebook, which gets rid of the news feed as well as the pinned bar on top. Or, if you have the Better Facebook extension, you can paste this into the CSS options under Advanced Options Mode.
/* Hide Facebook live ticker */.ticker_stream { display:none !important; }
We’ll spare you the Xzibit jokes and just be glad that the stupid news feed is gone.
Hide Facebook Live Feed Ticker and Disable Floating Bar [SumTips]
Cameron
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 8:37 AMHow do you GET the news ticker? I’ve got this new news feed, but now I’ve lost access to everyone’s updates! All I’m seeing is crap posted by famous people and companies!
Phil
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 10:03 AMI don’t have the update to the new ticker, which i realised was dueto me having my locale/language set to English (UK). Set it to this and you’ll temporarily remove the update.. Or on the other hand if you *want* the update… swap to English (US).
Cameron
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 10:46 AMNope, I’ve got English (UK) and I’ve got the new news feed, but I’m missing the “Ticker” (and the “new” chat).
Pyta
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 10:36 AMIt looks like the update has now been applied to all English language settings. I must say, I despise the new feed and its inability to be set to good old fashioned chronological order.
Dean
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 11:00 AMEveryone needs to stop bitching. THIS IS AN OUTRAGE THEY’RE IMPROVING THIS FREE SERVICE THAT I HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO USE.
I know this is not a bitchy article, but I’m getting fed up with people bitching about every little change facebook makes, when in a couple of weeks time you’ll all be fine with it. Learn to deal with change, people. I for one like the additions.
Gordon Pedersen
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 12:15 PMI’m not really against facebook changes, but the lack of a chronological order it annoying. I’m just going to use something like TweetDeck and ignore the new news feed entirely.
Grayda
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 6:26 PMMy mother-in-law is legally blind and these updates have made her unable to view photos of her children who live on the opposite side of the country / world.
Yes, we’re under no obligation to use it, but you try telling your friends that.
ns
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 12:39 PMjust as you get accustomed to the layout, they go ahead & re-layout… hard for oldies like me to keep up.
one thing I did do was to drag the chat list right up to the top, so i have only 2 of those annoying status updates visible..
Michael
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 6:03 AMFor the record, it looks like Better Facebook now inherently supports hiding this functionality, so that you don’t have to apply the custom css.
Seb
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 6:33 PMYou know what I hate? That I have removed the ticker and now I want it back. Damn human’s ability to adapt to changes in our environment.