New features on popular sites like Facebook can be met with as much excitement as rejection. It’s hard to think of any one change that Facebook has made that hasn’t been criticised in one way or another.
The latest of these changes that hasn’t gone down very well is the new Facebook photo viewer, in which photos are displayed in a somewhat clunky lightbox. There’s no way any change made to a site like Facebook is going to please every single one of its millions of members, and most of the time, there’s an add-on to get things back exactly the way they were.
While the concept of a lightbox isn’t a terrible idea, Facebook’s execution certainly leaves something to be desired. If you want to get rid of the lightbox and revert to the more simple display, there are two ways to do this – you can manually refresh the page, or install an add-on. While doing it manually is tedious, when installing an add-on, you have to grant access to your Facebook profile – so both solutions do come at a price.
