Overview of How to Remove / Disable Facebook Timeline
If you have got Facebook Timeline and want to change back to viewing the old style profile pages, or if you haven't got Timeline yet, but just want to view your friend's Timeline pages in the old style profile format, this guide is for you.
Currently, if you visit a personal Facebook Timeline page, with a browser that identifies itself as "Internet Explorer 7", you will be shown the old style profile page for that person, instead of their Timeline page. This is because Facebook haven't yet created a version of Timeline that works with IE7.
When you visit a website, your web browser sends it an identification code, known as the "User Agent", which lets the site know what web browser you are using. This method for disabling timeline works by changing your current browser's "User Agent" to IE7 and tricking Facebook into showing you the old style profile pages.
Guide to Remove / Disable Facebook Timeline
The method for setting the User Agent to IE7 for the following browsers are listed below : Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer
GOOGLE CHROME(Windows Xp or 7) to other OS click here
To change Google Chrome's "User Agent" you need to carefully follow the instructions below, depending on what Operating System you are using.
The first 2 steps are very imporant, you need to install FB Purity, and then you also need to download the .bat file that is used to start Chrome with its User Agent set to IE7:
- First, Download ("Right Click" the link, select "Save link as..." and save the .bat file to your "Desktop")
- Close *all* open Chrome browser Windows and Tabs, then click the previously downloaded .bat file and it will run Chrome with "IE7" as its "user agent".
- Now visit a personal Timeline page, and you will see that it is now displayed as a normal, old style profile page. BTW If at any point, you want to go back to using the normal User Agent, just close all Chrome windows and then open Chrome using your usual Chrome Icon, instead of the Bat file.
- Please click the "like" button below, and also share the link to this page with all your friends, that way they will also be able to view your Timeline page in the old style Profile format:
Please Note: Running Chrome with the spoofed useragent is only temporary, and it will only have the IE7 user agent when you start Chrome with the downloaded .Bat or App File. To revert back to normal Chrome, just close all Chrome windows, then run Chrome from your usual shortcut / icon as you normally would and its User Agent will return to normal
FIREFOX (Windows, Mac or Linux)
Its easy to switch Firefox's User Agent to IE7, the steps are as follows
- Install the "User Agent Switcher" Extension from addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/
- Go to Firefox's "Tools/User Agent Switcher/Internet Explorer" menu and select "Internet Explorer 7"
- Now go and view a personal Timeline page, it will be displayed in the old Profile format. BTW If you want to at any point switch the User Agent back to normal, just set the User Agent to "Default User Agent" or else just disable the "User Agent Switcher" extension.
- Please click the "like" button below, and also share the link to this page with all your friends, that way they will also be able to view your Timeline page in the old style Profile format:
- To switch the User Agent in Safari, you need to first go into the "Preferences" menu, select "Advanced", then tick the "Show Develop menu in menu bar" option, then exit the preferences menu.
- Now click the page icon menu (next to the cog wheel icon) then select the "Develop/User agent" menu, there you can choose the useragent you wish to use for the current website you are viewing. Select Internet Explorer 7.
- Now view any personal Facebook Timeline page, and it will be displayed in the old style Profile format.
- Please click the "like" button below, and also share the link to this page with all your friends, that way they will also be able to view your Timeline page in the old style Profile format:
OPERA (Windows, Mac or Linux)1. To set the custom user agent in Opera, enter "opera:config#ISP|Id" into the url/address bar, then enter the Custom User Agent string "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" and click "Save"
- Restart your browser and view your profile page, or any other personal Timeline profile page, and it will display it in the old Profile format
- Please click the "like" button below, and also share the link to this page with all your friends, that way they will also be able to view your Timeline page in the old style Profile format:
Note : If you want to restore your User Agent to normal in Opera, just follow the first part of step 1 again, and then click the "Default" button then click "Save"
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