How to Go Back to the Old (and Better!) Way of Viewing Facebook Photo Albums

Okay. So, once you are finished reading this, you are going to thank your friends at CF.ca for making your Facebook user experience about a million and a half times better. Remember when Facebook decided to make changes to how we can view our photo albums? It used to be nice and clean and easy and Mark Zuckerberg decided to make albums look like slideshows with a fancy black background. And by fancy, we really mean distracting.

But, there is a simple, simple way to take album viewing back to how it used to be.

This is what Facebook albums look like right now:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And this is what makes that black slideshow feature happen:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, if you want to remove it and go back to the old Facebook user experience, remove the words “&theater” from the address bar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Voila!

You’re welcome.

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