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By GDoutch — Last update Mar 8, 2009 — Installed 25,641 times.

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Nov 17, 2004 1:05am Jesse Andrews Admin	The following is an archive of comments made before threaded discussions was implemented (November 16th, 2008)

Nov 10, 2008 4:49pm bighaugs User	I thought this script was great (it performs as advertised), but it SERIOUSLY slows down the javascript (?) on certain actions in Facebook, at least for me. Tagging photos, for example, became an exercise in patience; it would take 5-6 seconds for the tagging box to appear. Often, simple text entry would also fall into an interminable lag, to the point where my OS (Vista HP) thought that Firefox had crashed. I assumed that the problem was in my FF installation. After a completely fresh install, however, I realized (by trial-and-error) that this script was causing my problems.

Oct 3, 2008 7:26pm GDoutch Script's Author	Hey, This shouldn't really affect the facebook chat feature. I haven't seen a problem, but I don't use it much myself.

Sep 21, 2008 7:45pm guitarmex User	Hey man, I hate to nitpick, but it really lags out the browser window when I open up my facebook chat tab and click on someone to send a message.

Sep 11, 2008 9:47pm thebuddhist User	w00t! F corporate amerika and their lame ads, works great in FF3.

Sep 9, 2008 1:13pm GDoutch Script's Author	Updated: // Ver 1.9 // Hide the sidebar instead of remove to prevent the layout screwing up

Sep 8, 2008 3:55am 2CollegeBums User	I love this script. At the end of the removeSideBar function I added: `document.getElementById('right_column').setAttribute("style","margin-right:160px");` This prevents the whole right column from being shifted over 160px because the sidebar is removed.

Aug 22, 2008 7:17pm GDoutch Script's Author	Actually, this one gets rid of more ads than the one @ 31080

Aug 9, 2008 6:03pm GDoutch Script's Author	This one is better: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/31080 I recommend it to anyone who is thinking of installing this script.

Aug 4, 2008 10:39am GDoutch Script's Author	Ver 1.8 Switched to a single removeEmbeddedAds() function for removing all ads found by class='something to do with ads' inside every div element on the page. This is because facebook updated their ad insertion method on the home_sidebar

Jul 30, 2008 10:13pm GDoutch Script's Author	@codam That userstyle is good, but still allows news feed ads to slip through. Used in conjunction with this script kills them all. It still doesn't quite resize for all pages, but is good enough anyway.

Jul 30, 2008 9:59pm GDoutch Script's Author	Thanks for pointing that out codam. Never heard of userstyles before.

Jul 30, 2008 9:02pm codam User	@Tom Gallagher: http://userstyles.org/styles/9021.html does just that (although a lot of other stuff too which you might not want..)

Jul 30, 2008 12:00pm GDoutch Script's Author	Ver 1.7 GM_addstyle was nice but leaked ads in the news feed. Reverted to previous method that worked better.

Jul 29, 2008 11:30am GDoutch Script's Author	Simplified a great deal using GM_addstyle.

Jul 27, 2008 11:26pm GDoutch Script's Author	Ver 1.6 Added an eval to take care of the error messages. commented out the on load command as DOMNodeInserted takes care of it all!

Jul 27, 2008 10:55pm GDoutch Script's Author	Yeah I know. I don't really know how to do that at the moment. If anyone has any code (zorlan's doesn't work for all of new.facebook.com/* ) they can post it here or make their own script based on this. I don't mind, just let me know so I can install it :)

Jul 26, 2008 6:12pm Tom Gallagher User	It would be great if you could expand the newsfeed and other items to occupy the freed up space :D

Jul 25, 2008 8:59pm GDoutch Script's Author	Yeah, I get that too. But it's definitely not 'null'. I'll look into it some more.

Jul 25, 2008 5:38pm Logan Koester Scriptwright	I'm getting a "document.getElementById("newsfeed_wrapper") is null" error from Firebug for this script, though it seems to work fine.

Jul 23, 2008 4:05pm GDoutch Script's Author	Ver 1.5: Added class name to catch more feed ads - expect this to grow as more come along. Fix made for the home page sidebar sponsor removal that wasn't working too great before. It seems that `document.addEventListener("DOMNodeInserted", removeAds, true)` works after all. There were rumours of a bug, I don't know what it is.

Jul 23, 2008 7:31am Zorlan User	I wrote a similar script, and used the following code to allow an app to take up the remaining space: var contentNode = document.getElementById('content').childNodes[0].childNodes[0]; contentNode.style.width = "100%"; contentNode.childNodes[0].style.width = "auto"; Note: this code is only for apps.new.facebook.com, but it doesn't have any affect on the other parts of facebook as far as I've tested.

Jul 23, 2008 5:11am yanksoccer117 Scriptwright	yo, you hit it on the head with `document.addEventListener("DOMNodeInserted", removeAds, true);` thanks

Jul 22, 2008 10:12pm GDoutch Script's Author	Ver 1.4: Added another little function to remove the sponsored ad that resides within the main page right-hand-side updates container

Jul 22, 2008 9:32pm GDoutch Script's Author	Ver 1.3 Now. Ads have already begun appearing in the news feed. This must be stopped at all costs! :) Support added to do this!