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...meanwhile we still can't use "pinch to zoom" (trackpad) in Firefox, which is available in Safari and Chrome for like 5 years now. Such a basic feature! It's

...meanwhile we still can't use "pinch to zoom" (trackpad) in Firefox, which is available in Safari and Chrome for like 5 years now. Such a basic feature! It's the main reason i personally stopped using Firefox.

thanksgiving 9y ago
> ...meanwhile we still can't use "pinch to zoom" (trackpad) in Firefox, which is available in Safari and Chrome for like 5 years now. Such a basic feature! It's the main reason i personally stopped using Firefox. http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110322102812402 http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2011032210281240... I assume you're on a mac since you mention Safari? I don't have a mac. Please give it a try with the latest nightly. It should loom something like https://i.imgur.com/2EgjCIO.png https://i.imgur.com/2EgjCIO.png The article says this feature depends on support from your hardware. Of course, in the typical Mozilla fashion there is a six year old bug that seems related https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632733 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632733 I don't know what to say. Sigh.
- DavideNL 9y ago
  Yea, the pinch to zoom setting those links refer to is equal to hitting "Cmd +" or "Cmd -" on the keyboard (in Windows it would be Ctrl +). However this zoom doesn't really work properly on all websites, for example with both text and images. What i was referring to was the "smooth" pinch to zoom like Safari and Chrome which works on any webpage (text + images). I don't know how to properly describe it, here's the example: http://i.imgur.com/AvLLbuy.gif http://i.imgur.com/AvLLbuy.gif >I assume you're on a mac since you mention Safari? Yea, a Macbook with a touchpad.
Vinnl 9y ago
> Such a basic feature! As a programmer, I really dislike remarks like this. There are so, so many features that are just as basic as that. All software will have features of this caliber that are not implemented, disregarding the thousands upon thousands of equivalently "basic" features that are.
- thanksgiving 9y ago
  It actually shows the tragedy at Mozilla because our* hard-working programmers have implemented this feature but Mozilla gets slammed either way. Remember how people got in arms because Mozilla Firefox had some preference that allowed people to disable loading images and javascript whole scale across the browser? Well, I imagine Mozilla wouldn't be too excited to see blog posts like this: https://blog.codinghorror.com/this-is-what-happens-when-you-let-developers-create-ui/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/this-is-what-happens-when-you-... So what do we get? We get bugs that sit in Bugzilla for five years and nobody wants to do anything about it. * I am not a Mozilla employee and I can't speak for Mozilla
prodmerc 9y ago
Bigger tab buttons, such a basic feature!
lucb1e 9y ago
Curious: do you use pinching with two hands or with one? I hate the pinch to zoom on any platform: on mobile it always rotates the view when I want north to be up (so I use the +/- buttons); and on a touchpad with one hand... I mean, my thumb is opposable but my other fingers are not made to move more in that direction. I'd have to get my other hand away from the keyboard (or from under my head, depending on what I'm doing). I'm curious how others do this.
- DavideNL 9y ago
  On the touchpad i always use one hand, my right hand: Index+Ring finger, I just move them sideways. actually i never thought about that. I just noticed that the person in the example video http://i.imgur.com/AvLLbuy.gif http://i.imgur.com/AvLLbuy.gif seems to use Thumb+Index finger.
  - lucb1e 9y ago
    Ah, right, with those fingers it works a lot better indeed!
cerberusss 9y ago
Get the extension pinch-to-zoom-firefox-osx https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pinch-to-zoom-firefox-osx/?src=userprofile https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pinch-to-zoom...
- DavideNL 9y ago
  Thanks, but that's kind of a "shitty zoom". What i was looking for is the smooth Safari/Chrome-like zoom, see my previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439720 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439720

thanksgiving 9y ago

> ...meanwhile we still can't use "pinch to zoom" (trackpad) in Firefox, which is available in Safari and Chrome for like 5 years now. Such a basic feature! It's the main reason i personally stopped using Firefox. http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110322102812402 http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2011032210281240... I assume you're on a mac since you mention Safari? I don't have a mac. Please give it a try with the latest nightly. It should loom something like https://i.imgur.com/2EgjCIO.png https://i.imgur.com/2EgjCIO.png The article says this feature depends on support from your hardware. Of course, in the typical Mozilla fashion there is a six year old bug that seems related https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632733 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632733 I don't know what to say. Sigh.

DavideNL 9y ago
Yea, the pinch to zoom setting those links refer to is equal to hitting "Cmd +" or "Cmd -" on the keyboard (in Windows it would be Ctrl +). However this zoom doesn't really work properly on all websites, for example with both text and images. What i was referring to was the "smooth" pinch to zoom like Safari and Chrome which works on any webpage (text + images). I don't know how to properly describe it, here's the example: http://i.imgur.com/AvLLbuy.gif http://i.imgur.com/AvLLbuy.gif >I assume you're on a mac since you mention Safari? Yea, a Macbook with a touchpad.

Vinnl 9y ago

> Such a basic feature! As a programmer, I really dislike remarks like this. There are so, so many features that are just as basic as that. All software will have features of this caliber that are not implemented, disregarding the thousands upon thousands of equivalently "basic" features that are.

thanksgiving 9y ago
It actually shows the tragedy at Mozilla because our* hard-working programmers have implemented this feature but Mozilla gets slammed either way. Remember how people got in arms because Mozilla Firefox had some preference that allowed people to disable loading images and javascript whole scale across the browser? Well, I imagine Mozilla wouldn't be too excited to see blog posts like this: https://blog.codinghorror.com/this-is-what-happens-when-you-let-developers-create-ui/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/this-is-what-happens-when-you-... So what do we get? We get bugs that sit in Bugzilla for five years and nobody wants to do anything about it. * I am not a Mozilla employee and I can't speak for Mozilla

prodmerc 9y ago

Bigger tab buttons, such a basic feature!

lucb1e 9y ago

Curious: do you use pinching with two hands or with one? I hate the pinch to zoom on any platform: on mobile it always rotates the view when I want north to be up (so I use the +/- buttons); and on a touchpad with one hand... I mean, my thumb is opposable but my other fingers are not made to move more in that direction. I'd have to get my other hand away from the keyboard (or from under my head, depending on what I'm doing). I'm curious how others do this.

DavideNL 9y ago
On the touchpad i always use one hand, my right hand: Index+Ring finger, I just move them sideways. actually i never thought about that. I just noticed that the person in the example video http://i.imgur.com/AvLLbuy.gif http://i.imgur.com/AvLLbuy.gif seems to use Thumb+Index finger.
- lucb1e 9y ago
  Ah, right, with those fingers it works a lot better indeed!

cerberusss 9y ago

Get the extension pinch-to-zoom-firefox-osx https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pinch-to-zoom-firefox-osx/?src=userprofile https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pinch-to-zoom...

DavideNL 9y ago
Thanks, but that's kind of a "shitty zoom". What i was looking for is the smooth Safari/Chrome-like zoom, see my previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439720 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439720