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Remove Chat from iGoogle

Remove Chat from iGoogle!

If you are a user of the Stylish extension, you will love this little tip.  I use iGoogle, however I never stay on the page long enough to use the embedded chat they included a while back.  However I am happy to say I found a solution. 

Install this Stylish user style:

Once doing so, the chat (as you seen in the screenshot above) disappears.  To make it work for me, I had to change:

http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en

to

http://www.google.com/ig

However, once that was done – it worked flawlessly.  An easy hack for a very lovable web page.  Got to love these Stylish user styles!

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  • Amanda
    Ok, you are seriously my hero. I've been dealing with a messed up igoogle on firefox for MONTHS. This fixed ALL the problems! THANK YOU!

    (P.S. I found an add-on that gets rid of the chat and tabs on the side. You can still access the tabs from a new drop-down menu at the top. It's great.)
  • I didn't know about stylish, but I've created a jetpack app that allows you to toggle the left column of igoogle off and on (amongst other things).

    If you're interested hit

    http://www.trashdev.com/igooglecleaner
  • Thanks for sharing!
  • eknirb
    OK got it working, didn't do anything else, but works fine, so who knows?
  • Happy to hear it!
  • eknirb
    yup, that is where i was going. no good. eh.
  • eknirb
    PS this is what it looks like, right?

    @-moz-document url-prefix(http://www.google.com/ig) {
    #tab_chat, #talk_container {
    visibility: hidden !important;
    }
    }
  • Here is mine:

    @-moz-document url-prefix(http://www.google.com/ig) {
    #tab_chat, #talk_container {
    visibility: hidden !important;
    }
    }

    Also make sure that http://www.google.com/ig is the address you are visiting, exactly.
  • eknirb
    MK, I tried it, it doesn't work for me. I edited the script down too, in the script mode. what am i doin' wrong?
  • Not necessary. You can disable the chat app from the settings page:
    http://www.google.com/ig/settings
  • Very nice. I finally got rid of chat for my Gmail via the settings link.
  • Not necessarily. ;) Then you are left with a big "Enable Chat" link. (tried it this morning)
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