Friday, September 28, 2012

Getting Pinch-Zoom to work with Firefox in MacOS X

Just installed Firefox on Mac OS X Lion and realized that pinch zoom wasn't working. The Magic Trackpad is supported otherwise (swipe left for back, swipe right for next). Google solved the problem:

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/795269

You can restore the zoom feature by changing the values of the related prefs on the about:config page.
  • browser.gesture.pinch.in -> cmd_fullZoomReduce
  • browser.gesture.pinch.in.shift -> cmd_fullZoomReset
  • browser.gesture.pinch.out -> cmd_fullZoomEnlarge
  • browser.gesture.pinch.out.shift -> cmd_fullZoomReset
After this pinch-zoom started working, however, i found that it was a little jittery. The following options fixed this:

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the tip...made my day better!!

kage said...

you are welcome! happy to know it helped. :)