How To Disable Facebook Timeline

It’s been a while since Facebook made available its Timeline feature to all users. People who really like this new feature are the minorities, as no one wants anymore changes in Facebook. But as time goes by, Facebook users get used to the revamped layout every time their team come up with something new to change the interface of one of the top visited websites today.

Facebook has recently stopped supporting Internet Explorer 7 browser, so it means Facebook Timeline feature doesn’t work on the IE 7, and users took advantage of the old browser to disable the Timeline. If you use Internet Explorer 7 to open Facebook, you’ll find that the browser drops the Timeline feature. Instead, the old profile interface will appear on your Facebook screen. Although you’ll see a bit extra space at the top of the Facebook wall, but it can be removed by using the FB purity script.

All of you must be having Internet Explorer 8 or higher version on your computer. Now you might be thinking how to get IE 7. Don’t worry, I have another solution to this problem. Google Chrome has recently added a built-in User-Agent Switcher in its web console that will let Chrome pretend to be a different browser. In this post, I’m going to tell you how to disable Facebook Timeline feature in Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

How To Disable Facebook Timeline In Chrome Browser:

If you’re a Chrome user, login to your Facebook account and go to any Timeline page. Now press ‘CTRL + SHIFT + I’ on your keyboard, it should open a web console across the bottom of the browser window. Now click the ‘Gear/Settings’ icon in the right-bottom corner of the browser screen. Next, you have to enable the ‘Override User Agent’ and select the Internet Explorer 7. Refresh the page to see the changes.

You’ll have to follow the above steps to get old layout back every time you visit any Facebook profile page as all it takes is a few clicks. As I stated above, you’ll have to install FBpurity script in your browser to remove the extra white space at the top of the stream.

How To Disable Facebook Timeline In Firefox Browser:

As there is no built-in User agent switcher in Firefox, you’ll first need to install User Agent Switcher Add-on in your Firefox browser. Once you’re done installing, go to any Facebook Timeline page and change the user agent as I told you above. Don’t forget to refresh the page for changes to take effect. The FP Purity script is also available for Firefox browser.

How TODisable Facebook Timeline In Safari Browser:

You can spoof your browser’s user agent to emulate IE7 quite easily with Safari. First enable the develop menu in the browser bar. To do so, go to Preference > Advanced and tick ‘Show Develop Menu in the Menu Bar’. When done, click ‘Develop’ in the top bar > User Agent and then select ‘Internet Explorer 7’, which will let Safari browser pretend it’s IE 7 and you will get the old profile layout back.

That’s it !! Those of you who don’t like the Facebook Timeline feature should definitely try the above procedure to drop the Timeline feature and get back the old profile layout on Facebook.

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