Disable Facebook Photo VIewer (Theatre View)

Don't like the new Facebook theater view which pops up whenever u clicks a photo, U can switch back to ur normal view. The Facebook theater view has a photo in the center and with black outline. It even doesn't allow u to save image. So you can switch back to ur normal view.

There are five simple ways to disable it.

  1. While using the photo viewer, just refresh the page and the lightbox will disappear. The photo can be viewed and saved the old-fashioned way with a right-click.
  2. Delete everything from &theater on in the URL and it will revert back to the old way of viewing photos.
  3. Facebook Photo Theater Killer: Firefox users can download the extension to disable the photo viewer.
  4. Revert FB Photo Viewer: For Chrome users, this reverts to the old version of viewing photos and runs silently in the background. According to the developer, it does not read, transmit or store any of your data.
  5. Better Facebook: The free extension works on browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. There are more than 75 options to change your Facebook experience, including disabling the photo viewer.