How do I stop Facebook photo posts from popping?
March 5, 2016 12:23 PM   Subscribe

Whenever I click on a photo post from the notifications dropdown, the photo pops out towards me and I want to disable this feature. How do I do that?

Whenever I view Facebook on my desktop, I don't go through the newsfeed, but instead click the notifications button to see who's posted, and then click on individual posts that people have made. When the person has posted a photo and I click on the notification to view it, instead of viewing that specific photo as the person's post, like I would if they had posted text, the photo "pops" forward, dimming the background.

I hate this so much.

Is there any way to change that setting to remove the "pop" feature? It only happens the first time I click on the notification to view the photo. If I've viewed it once already, when I click on the notification again, it behaves like a text post.

Please tell me there's a way to make this stop. If it helps, I use Chrome 99% of the time and would be fine installing an extension to stop this, though if there's a way to change settings in Facebook instead, I'd prefer that.

Thanks.
posted by lea724 to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)
 
Do you use FB Purity already? My desktop is in the shop so I can't check at the moment, but I believe it stopped the stupid picture pop out under the conditions you're describing.
posted by SMPA at 1:48 PM on March 5, 2016 [1 favorite]


The Social Fixer add-on also disables this, but there have been some issues with keeping it updated lately (apparently, FB is not friendly for developers). I have never found a setting in FB itself to control the behavior.
posted by crush-onastick at 2:26 PM on March 5, 2016


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