Whenever you chat with folks on Facebook, then each conversation appears at the bottom-right corner of the site as a chat tab. Now, Facebook is basically using the same tool for posts that you are following. Whenever someone comments on your posts or also posts that you have also commented on, then a tab will pop up in the bottom-right corner. This can get really overwhelming. In this article, we are going to talk about What are Post Tabs and How to Disable them. Let’s begin!
Facebook has also added a new feature to its web interface; tabbed posts. A tabbed post is basically a pop-up that shows on Facebook. The pop-up actually shows you a post that you are following. It basically appears whenever there is new activity on the post. You do not have to tap on the notification for the new activity in order to get the tab to appear. It appends next to the chat window and you can also close or minimize it as well. The tabbed post makes it like this you can also check out and also respond to new activity on a post without even leaving your news feed actually. The feature is turned on automatically and you might not like it much. Let’s see how you can turn off post tabs on Facebook.
Disable Tabbed Posts
If you have the sidebar hidden, then you can disable tabbed posts from the chat tab actually. Press the cogwheel button on the chat tab and choose ‘Turn Off Post Tabs’ from the menu that appears.
If you guys have the sidebar enabled, tap on the cogwheel button on the sidebar. Choose ‘Turn Off Post Tabs’ from the menu that opens.
And if you guys have a tabbed post open, then turning it off tabbed posts will close it automatically.
Turn On Post tabs
If you want to enable tabbed posts on Facebook, then follow the above process. On the Chat tab, you have to click the cogwheel button. Choose ‘Turn On Post Tabs’ from the menu that opens. On the sidebar, press the cogwheel button. Choose ‘Turn On Post Tabs’ from the menu.
Enabling tabbed posts will not automatically show a tabbed post on the news feed. You guys have to wait for new activity on a post to appear actually.
Hide Post tabs
You can also minimize a tabbed post so that the window does not occupy a huge portion of your browser’s window. You can also hide a post tab actually. Hiding a post tab will close the tab and make it that it does not appear again for that particular post. When you guys hide a tab, then you have the option to turn off the notifications for the post as well.
In order to hide a tabbed post, click the cogwheel button on the post tab. Choose the ‘Hide This Tab’ option. This same menu has a ‘See Full Post’ option as well. If you tap on it, then you will be taken to the post itself.
A post tab can also be closed, but, it will pop up again if there is new activity on the post as well.
