Facebook is really famous whether you are a student, an employee or just a social-networking addict. Most people prefer facebook over other popular social networking sites due to it’s clean design and cool features. Just to clear things up, when I say clean design I mean it’s default layout without all that useless applications everybody uses! No I don’t want to be a zombie nor take the Likeliness test! Anyway, keeping up with friends’ activities and group events makes facebook so popular and useful at the same time. Something that I noticed is that facebook’s privacy settings does not allow somebody to view a user’s full size profile picture if not in the same network. Well, here comes the reason of this post. Sometimes I can’t tell if I know that person or not. Now there is way to get everybody’s picture with some ‘magic’ and no tech knowledge at all!

So after a couple of minutes analyzing facebook’s HTML code I ended up with this simple Javascript code which replaces the small profile picture of a user with the stored bigger version. The script I wrote does not resize the image but as mentioned before it fetches from facebook the slightly bigger one and displays that instead of the thumbnail one!

How to ‘install’

Note this works only in Firefox!

The easy way is to download a file and load it in your favorites/bookmarks tab. The file basically is a URL link file with the javascript below. To download right click here and save it.

The more advance way is to create the bookmark by yourself!

First Copy the following code. Make sure you copy everything, otherwise this will not work!

javascript:eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(/^/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return’\\w+’};c=1};while(c–){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp(’\\b’+e(c)+’\\b’,'g’),k[c])}}return p}(’3 a=w.g(\’x\’);t(3 i=0;i<a.e;i++){b=a[i].6(\’2\’);j=b.u(/s/,\’n\’);a[i].4(\’2\’,j);1=”p:o; m: l”;s=a[i].5.5;s.4(\’1\’,1)}7(\’q c h r\\f 8\\9://v.d.k\’)',34,34,’|style|src|var|setAttribute|parentNode|getAttribute|alert|Tziortzis|nhttp|||Facebook|tziortzis|length|nMarios|getElementsByTagName|Trick|||com|210px|width||block|display|Cool|by||for|replace|marios|document|img’.split(’|'),0,{}))

Then, create a new bookmark. Name it whatever you want and in the ‘Location’ field paste the code you just copied.

How to use

As mentioned before, whenever you are at a limited profile, just hit the bookmark/favorite link and the image(s) will get bigger.

Now you have no excuse of not being able to distinguish faces :P