Automatically Zoom Facebook Photos in Mozilla Firefox

This page was last updated on February 25, 2011

It becomes very annoying in Facebook when you want to view the photo gallery of a friend. To look at an enlarged picture you have to click on the thumbnail, the picture opens up and then you can close it. But now you can use the Facebook PhotoZoom add-on in the Firefox browser to auto-zoom any thumbnail in Facebook to see the enlarged image by just hovering over that thumbnail. Here is how :

  1. Visit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-photozoom/ in the Mozilla Firefox browser.
  2. Click on the green colored Add to Firefox button to install the Facebook PhotoZoom add-on.
    Facebook PhotoZoom addon
  3. It will prompt you for confirmation. Click on Install Now to proceed. Restart your web browser to complete the installation.
    Install Facebook PhotoZoom addon
  4. After Firefox has restarted, you will be ready to use the Facebook PhotoZoom add-on. Now you can log in to your Facebook account and hover over a picture thumbnail in Facebook. You would see an enlarged picture popup. The popup would be shown as long as your mouse cursor stays over the thumbnail.
    Zooming a thumbnail in Facebook
  5. This Firefox add-on is very simple to use and has no option settings.

The Facebook PhotoZoom add-on is great to view the enlarged pictures of friends, and their photo galleries without actually clicking on the thumbnails and opening the pictures making your Facebook experience even smoother.


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