Enlarge Facebook Private Profile Pictures

There's an easy way to enlarge Facebook profile pictures that usually only appear as thumbnails in search results. You don't need to be friends with the person whose profile pic you want to see in larger format.

Just follow these simple instructions:

Note: This only works with Firefox, so get yourself a copy of that browser here.

How to enlarge private profile pictures

1. Click here to install Greasemonkey (It's free).
   
   Greasemonkey is a small Firefox addon that lets you customize the way pages appear in Firefox. It also happens to be very useful in accessing private images, profiles and much more on social networks such as Facebook.


2. Once installed, you'll see a little monkey icon on the lower right portion of the Firefox status bar. Roll over the little icon and make sure it says "enabled". If you don't see the icon, simply close and restart Firefox. If you see the icon but it says "Greasemonkey is disabled", simply double click on the little monkey to enable it.
   
   
3. Install a nifty little script developped by Mattias Blom by clicking here. It'll show you the larger size profile pictures whenever you hover over the thumbnails that Facebook usually displays in search results. That's it!

Note: I suggest restarting Firefox after steps 2 (installing Greasemonkey) and 3 (installing the script).

Don't forget to bookmark this page for easy access to the rest of the instructions before restarting Firefox.