@dk92, too bad. for some people it will work, for others it wont.

@a4arg, no :(

@dshap, ok a lot of points you made there, let's see if i can address them all.

so firstly about removing the viewing all photos functionality, in the long switch function, comment out the profile.php and album.php cases. secondly, this script doesn't have any effect on the 1/x 2/x thing as that's a facebook bug that happens even when my script is disabled.

about the points you made on your second post, recently facebook has gone all ajaxy and therefore when you click a link, the content reloads without the page refreshing and therefore greasemonkey triggering a call. for this reason some functionality doesn't happen as this script hasn't been called on that page. to force a refresh you can press F5 but this isn't entirely satisfactory as it takes much longer. at the moment i can't see any way of reloading the greasemonkey script once the page has changed. oh and this script does actually remove name=X from the pictures, but doesn't always get called cos of the already mentioned ajax problem.

i'll keep my eye on other facebook scripts and see what ideas they come up with to get past this ajax stuff

iwantitall, this is because facebook has suddenly gone all ajax and so the pages load without actually transporting to another page. I'm currently trying to find a way around this in the code but atm it's tricky. you can always force the reloading of a page by pressing F5 and the script should work fine.

@Praveen Mark... i have been meaning to reply to you for a while but completely forgot. i think you're referring to another script as the number of pictures has no effect on this script :)

There's a bug in the code where 'see this Photo in its album' is repeatedly added. it can be recreated by doing this:

go to a group's photos and click in the white space
press the right arrow on the keyboard to go to the next picture
repeat and you should get lots of the links at the top

i can provide a screenshot but have not at this time as it's pretty easy to replicate and you shouldn't have any trouble seeing what i mean. thanks

StealthMonkey, done :)

>when i use this script using my profile to which the friend has been added, it simply says that i cant view coz of privacy settings. but when i try to search for the name using another profile (which doesnt have the friend added) it shows me that the user has no photos tagged of them.

I don't understand what you mean by this, could you explain this to me by email? thanks

>i think the only way to see restricted pictures could be if one could find a way to find out the public id or url of the picture

the pid and id is found in the picture's filename, but still you can't access any of the pictures in that album as it comes up with a content not found error

If you think this script isn't working and are constantly getting blank results, please try searching for a random name within your network and then clicking on their private profile link. When I try this I usually get results about 90% of the time (which proves it works).

Oh, and there's going to be a big update soon ;)

Lancer just copied and pasted my script, please use the original and safe script here:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/11218

@thescriptuser2, search for someone and if they have a private profile, the link will turn red and you may be able to see pictures of them. if their profile is public then it will change the photos link on the profile so you can see all opf their pictures in one group rather than the usual two sections.

@eugenio and all, i THINK i've come to the conclusion that you can only see pictures of someone who has a private profile if they're in your primary network. can anyone else confirm this for me by doing some random tests and see what comes up? thanks.

@xJeremyx for most people it will say that, but for people who have a pretty close connection to you, say they're a friend of a friend and they're in the same network, then it's more likely that you will see pictures

@Sail Your Ship By:

You can view photos of someone who's not your friend using a little url manipulation ;) check http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/11218

(although you should comment out lines 21-24 in this script so it doesn't conflict with my own)

the new feature you added doesn't work with private albums. I tried it myself.

You can only see the page with the image on (photo.php?pid=123...), if you can see that image when you view all the pictures they're tagged in. oh and as far as i know, there's no way of checking if the album is private or not from that page

To answer your questions:

#1 yes you can view the albums page of someone who is not your friend, but they have to have their privacy settings low of course

#2 that's not a question ;) but i have tried it under some conditions for you:

A person i was not friends with, it worked!
A private album, it linked to a content error
A normal album, it worked

#3 i had never seen this album thing before ray told me about it :D

hey ray1987, thanks for the info!

I've checked out that page and unfortunately i can't find a way of accessing the private albums. the checking is all done server side and as far as i know there's no way to trick it using a modified url (as is the case when viewing all photos)

you can however view the full version of the thumbnail depicting the album by changing the letter 'a' in the thumbnail's location url to a letter 'n'. or use this script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/11649

I'll keep an eye on this album page and see what i can do, maybe i'll even update the script so it can be accessed! it does seem fairly useful :)

In this latest release you've implemented a lesser version of my own script http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/11218

May i ask you remove it so that users can also use my script to link to that page when viewing individual photos and when viewing someone's profile.

The only reason why i ask is because i use both scripts myself and wouldn't want to be without either

For myself it's working just the way it always has. The 'hidden' pictures are ones in private albums i'm assuming and you could never see those before anyway (could you?)

It does work with the Boost For Firefox addon which allows you to view 100 photos per page instead of the usual 20. I'd recommend using this with my script :)

Oh and i found a minor bug with facebook's new slideshow feature. When viewing a photo, press Left or Right on your keyboard and the next picture will come up, however the photo links don't update... and i have no idea of making it run my javascript again :/ any help?

why is this using the tld domain? i can't access the site there. use .com please

Nice :)

although i added a 5 second timer for each click so it doesn't seem too obvious i'm cheating :D