9 years agoFirefox gestures are currently causing problems because of the ease with which they are activated on touchpads.The most common culprits are:. Text resizing (two finger pinch).
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The ability to perform a three-finger drag gesture on Mac and MacBook trackpads allows users to move windows and items on screen with a gesture rather than the usual click and drag, this feature is well liked by many Mac users and has been in OS X for quite some time. I can confirm this on the latest Firefox Beta (version 25). Try 2 finger vertical swipe again - and it no longer works. (In reply to Markus Stange :mstange from Bug 1016035 comment #2) Yes, implementing it with APZ would avoid it. I'm running Mac OS 10.9.3 on a MacBook Air and have this issue quite a while now.
Panorama activation (three fingers down). Slightly less common is back (three fingers left) and forward (three fingers right)All of the above have corresponding keyboard shortcuts.
Three finger scroll up and down used to jump from the top of the page to the bottom.If we disable these gestures by default and add an option to Preferences to turn them on, we allow those who use these gestures to benefit while not making everyone else's text size dance around. 9 years agoThe changes we make must be made for beta 9.
However, it is my strong opinion that we're throwing the baby out with the bath water, here.We should remove:- three finger swipe down/up to enter/exit Panorama (revert )- text resizing, because once triggered it's hard to understand what happened and it's a permanent changeWe should restore:- three finger swipe down/up to go to bottom/top of pageWe should keep:- three finger left/right to go back and forwardThe pros are that we get rid of the gestures we know cause problems (pinch & panorama enter/exit) and restore the ones we know are understood and used (top, bottom, left, right). 9 years agoI concur. Renaming bug, unless it is determined that three-finger up/down for page top/bottom and left/right for go back/forward are problematic.There are already about:config prefs. I don't think it is necessary to expose UI in the preferences dialog for this.The simple, most easily reversible way to disable pinch to text resize is to set the threshold to -1 and make a 1-line change to our threshold check.
(We could also set the threshold to a large integer, but that's hacky.)The alternate way is to clear the default values for the following prefs:browser.gesture.pinch.inbrowser.gesture.pinch.in.shiftbrowser.gesture.pinch.outbrowser.gesture.pinch.out.shiftI'm going to go with the former. 9 years ago(In reply to ) The pros are that we get rid of the gestures we know cause problems (pinch & panorama enter/exit) and restore the ones we know are understood and used (top, bottom, left, right)Yes, this was ultimately the intent, I believe — the bug just wasn't updated for a while.Would it be worth clearing the stored zoom preference for sites on upgrade after we disable this? It's not going to be onerous to adjust the sites you had it changed for again, and we reset it to normal size for people that are stuck in this state, and don't know how to get it back. Anecdotally, I've seen several 'Firefox displays this site with really small fonts, so I have to use IE instead' cases, where the stored accidental zoom is actually what happened.I filed a follow-up for this. Note that I've restricted it to Macs, let me know if it is a common problem on Windows or Linux too.
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9 years agoIt's 'unadvertised' in that there is no indication that you have zoomed the page, even if you return to it months or years later. That's why it's so annoying, to users who have no idea that this feature exists, and who just find that certain websites are totally unusable. There have been examples and complaints in the history of this and previous reports.If it were temporary, or there were some indication, those could be reasonable solutions. The present behavior is not, so disabling the gesture until it can be made to work in a more user-friendly way is the best short-term solution. 9 years agoI'm a Minefield nightly tester and I was bitten by this bug. 9 years agoI've got a Mac (Intel Mac OS X 10.6.7) running Nightly 6.0a1 (2011-05-03) and I don't see any pinch gestures mentioned in the Preferences window (I checked all the tabs).I have overridden the default settings for these about:config prefs, and pinch to zoom works well for me in this Nightly build:pref('browser.gesture.pinch.out', 'cmdfullZoomEnlarge');pref('browser.gesture.pinch.in', 'cmdfullZoomReduce');pref('browser.gesture.pinch.out.shift', 'cmdfullZoomReset');pref('browser.gesture.pinch.in.shift', 'cmdfullZoomReset'). 8 years agoJust got a brand new macbook pro 17'.
Install my fav browser (firefox) and find same issue exists. Firefox no longer my fav browser and I will be testing others today all day.Suggestion: This is a no brainer. Leave the functionality ON by default and provide a patch that turns it OFF for all the idiots who have issues with it.
To turn this fundamental functionality off by default and make kazillions of people who use mac and firefox hunt for solutions, is a severely disrespectful waste of time and money. The idiots at mozilla who recommended turning this off by default should be terminated and replaced immediately. They are blatantly negligent in their role/responsibilities to mozilla.
Trackpad gestures
For more information about these gestures, choose Apple menu () > System Preferences, then click Trackpad. You can turn a gesture off, change the type of gesture, and learn which gestures work with your Mac.
Trackpad gestures require a Magic Trackpad or built-in Multi-Touch trackpad. If your trackpad supports Force Touch, you can also Force click and get haptic feedback.
Secondary click (right-click)
Click or tap with two fingers.
Smart zoom
Double-tap with two fingers to zoom in and back out of a webpage or PDF.
Zoom in or out
Pinch with two fingers to zoom in or out.
Rotate
Move two fingers around each other to rotate a photo or other item.
Swipe between pages
Swipe left or right with two fingers to show the previous or next page.
Open Notification Center
Swipe left from the right edge with two fingers to show Notification Center.
Three finger drag
Use three fingers to drag items on your screen, then click or tap to drop. Turn on this feature in Accessibility preferences2.
Look up and data detectors
Tap with three fingers to look up a word or take actions with dates, addresses, phone numbers, and other data.
Show desktop
Spread your thumb and three fingers apart to show your desktop.
Launchpad
Pinch your thumb and three fingers together to display Launchpad.
Mission Control
Swipe up with four fingers3 to open Mission Control.
App Exposé
Swipe down with four fingers3 to see all windows of the app you're using.
Swipe between full-screen apps
Swipe left or right with four fingers3 to move between desktops and full-screen apps. Mouse gestures
For more information about these gestures, choose Apple menu () > System Preferences, then click Mouse. There you can turn a gesture off, change the type of gesture, and learn which gestures work with your Mac. Mouse gestures require a Magic Mouse.
Secondary click (right-click)
Click the right side of the mouse.
Smart zoom
Double-tap with one finger to zoom in and back out of a webpage or PDF.
Mission Control
Double-tap with two fingers to open Mission Control.
Swipe between full-screen apps
Swipe left or right with two fingers to move between desktops and full-screen apps.
Swipe between pages
Swipe left or right with one finger to show the previous or next page.
1. You can turn off trackpad scrolling in Accessibility preferences: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Accessibility. In the Mouse & Trackpad section, click Trackpad Options, then deselect the Scrolling checkbox.
2. Accessibility preferences also has options for one-finger dragging: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Accessibility. In the Mouse & Trackpad section, click Trackpad Options. Select “Enable dragging,” then choose one of the 'drag lock' options from the pop-up menu. Click the question-mark button to learn more about each option.
3. In some versions of macOS, this gesture uses three fingers instead of four.
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