How to Disable FACEBOOK Theater Effect

How to disable Facebook Photo Theater mode?

Learn how to return to Facebook's photo old format.!

Solution 1: When you click on a photo/album, it will open the photo in the theater mode, now in the address bar, look for “&theater” and delete it. Then, it will open the photo in the old format and you can start browsing the album as you used to do before.

Solution 2: A faster alternative for Option 1, is to refresh the browser. When reloaded, the photo will open in the old format and you can continue browsing as before.

As I mentioned before, neither of these solutions are permanent. When you go back to your feed and open a different photo/album, it will again open in the theater mode, and you would have to repeat either of the solutions. Hope Facebook gives a setting to toggle the theater mode or some developer comes out with a browser extension to handle this.

Update: It didn’t take long for someone to come out with a userscript. Install for Firefox here and Chrome here to permanently disable Facebook photo theater view.