How To Switch Over to the Classic Photo Layout in Facebook

While browsing through your friend’s album, you must have noticed that the Photos are being displayed in a new Format or the new photo viewer. In this format, the user comments are being displayed on the right hand side of the photos along with some Ads. Already some must have found this annoying as the older format was much friendly than the present one. This is somewhat similar to that of the Google plus Album Viewer.

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So for those who feel that this new layout is annoying can switch over to the older format or the classiclayout so that it doesn’t appear like a pop-up which is currently so. You can follow either of the steps below:

• While viewing the photo, Just press the F5 [refresh the page] button. This will refresh the photo page and on refreshing, the photo appears in the older format.
• Just before you open the photo, that is when you are about to click on the thumbnail of the photo, Hold the CTRL key along with clicking the thumbnail, which makes the photo open in a new tab with the older layout.

So, here is the photo in the older layout.

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So, these are the two simple ways to open the photo in the older classic layout. Although the choice is yours, the first option would be the simpler one to view the photos in the older format. Enjoy!