Several months ago, I wrote-up a brief how-to on just showing the most recent news feed on Facebook.
I added a new Chrome extension today that helps speed-up your Facebook experience – Facebook Flat. It makes your Facebook views “flat” from a design perspective (no pun intended, but the extension falls a little flat when on highres screens with a fully-expanded browser window): it removes ads, reduces the color scheme, and generally makes it smoother.
If you combine this extension with loading https://m.facebook.com/home.php?sk=h_chr as your Facebook view (the mobile web edition in chronological order), the posts no longer fully-fill the screen, but instead stay centered as just a news feed in the middle of your screen.
Combine with something like Auto Refresh, and you can automate a clean view for your Facebook feed.