After hard and long resistance, I finally gave up and recently signed up for Facebook. I am still not excited about it and quite deeply believe it can mainly bring negatives to people who post all kind of personal stuff. But anyway, since I am using it already from time to time, the single most annoying thing that caught my attention immediately (in the otherwise clean and arguably intuitive interface) was the fixed positioned chat box at the bottom of all pages. There was simply no way to remove it even if I didn't want to use the chat at all. And guess what, it seems the past few days that small collapsed box at the bottom has been transformed into a complete sidebar pushing the rest of the page to the left which is even more annoying (this seems to happen if the browser window is wide enough). Me doesn't like this at all so I am now sharing my solution to this annoyance with you...

Just install this small user script in your browser (Opera, Chrome, Firefox via Greasemonkey or Safari via GreaseKit):

https://raw.github.com/vadikom/facebook-nochat/master/facebook-nochat.user.js

and remove that chat floating box/sidebar for good! As a bonus, it will make sure you always appear unavailable for chat. Second bonus - when the sidebar is removed, the rest of the page will be perfectly centered in your browser window again. Yay!