Well, get ready to start having to reject or approve even larger photographs from here on out, as Facebook has tossed one more minor tweak into the mix. According to a Friday afternoon blog post from Facebook product manager Justin Shaffer, Facebook is now increasing the default size of displayed photographs from 720 pixels wide to 960 pixels wide. Any photos users have already uploaded to the site will be resized to fit the higher resolution (if the original photos are themselves large enough), and photos will also allegedly load in users' browsers twice as quickly as before.
Facebook is also changing around its photo viewer to accommodate the larger width, but shifting the size around isn't the only modification. The interface is being streamlined a bit, including the transformation of the familiar "left" and "right" picture navigation arrows into floating boxes that now hover outside of the lightbox's frame. The frame itself has lost its all-black background: Facebook's now just letting its larger, 960-wide shots speak for themselves, preferring instead to just dim the screen's background instead of slapping a huge black box over everything.
According to Shaffer, the new photo tweaks should be rolling out to Facebook users over a few days.
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