Facebook is, by all accounts, the biggest photo sharing site on the planet. Millions of photos are added everyday to facebook and the number is only going to grow given the ridiculous growth that facebook is seeing.

The photos application is also one of the more social aspects of facebook and everyone loves to tag, comment and generally have fun with photos. 

All that is well and good, but what do you do if you want to download a complete album to your computer and view it offline. Facebook doesn’t provide  any tools to do that. Sure, you could save each photo individually but that’d take a long time and be really painful.

FacePAD is a firefox extension that lets you download an entire facebook album to your computer with a single click. To install the application, Start firefox, go to Tools->Add ons and type FacePAD in the search box. Add the extension to firefox by clicking on the “Add to Firefox” button and you’re all set.

Now, with the Add on installed, login to facebook and browse over to any photo album that you’d like to download to your computer. Right-Click on the name of the album and select the option titled “Download album with FacePAD”.

FacePAD will then proceed to download each photo in the album to the default downloads folder of firefox. If you have more than a page of photos in the album, FacePAD will prompt you each time it moves over to the next page. This is because of the way facebook is structured and is a minor inconvenience.

FacePAD lets you download not only your own photo albums but also albums belonging to your friends, events or groups. Of course, you need to have view access to the album to begin with.

Are there any other similar utilities that you guys know of ? Let us know in the comments.

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