How to disable in-page Facebook chat for good?

Question

I know you can go in Options > Go Offline. But since I use Pidgin to connect to Facebook Chat, it keeps coming online again. I only want to use it in pidgin. How to remove it from the Facebook web page?

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure there is no official way of doing this. However, if you install AdBlock you could block the chat div from appearing by adding this custom rule:

facebook.com##DIV[id="pagelet_presence"]

• AdBlock for Chrome
• AdBlock for FireFox

Answer 2

This works with adblock and chrome:

facebook.com##DIV[id="pagelet_chat"]

Answer 3

Only

facebook.com##DIV[id="pagelet_sidebar"]

in Adblock worked for me in the latest version of Facebook