Change Camino and Firefox font sizes via scroll wheel

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Dec 06, '05 06:07:00AM • Contributed by: avnit

When viewing a webpage in Camino, hold down the Command key, and then scroll down to increase font size, or scroll up to decrease font size. This allows a more accurate font decrease/increase then Command-Plus or Command-Minus.

I don't know about all the other browsers, but I've tried this in Safari, and it doesn't work. I could not find any Camino documentation on this functionality.

[robg adds: This also works in the recently-released Firefox 1.5.]

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Change Camino and Firefox font sizes via scroll wheel
Authored by: froodiantherapy on Dec 06, '05 07:11:26AM

Note that although this does currently work, there's a bug in Camino to turn this off by default, as many users were invoking it accidentally (the bug can be found here). As is currently stands, this behavior can currently be turned on and off manually. To turn if off, go to about:config, and change mousewheel.withmetakey.action to 0
mousewheel.withmetakey.sysnumlines to true.

Change Camino font sizes via scroll wheel
Authored by: Aet on Dec 06, '05 03:20:32PM

Thanks for the tip, command-scroll changing the text size of everything has been bugging me for a while now. This fixes it.

Change Camino and Firefox font sizes via scroll wheel
Authored by: josephaw on Dec 07, '05 05:41:21AM

Thank you, this was one of the bugs that was keeping me from going to 1.5, even with a clean install.
Now the only problem left is that I can't right click (ctrl-click) on my grouped bookmark folders within the Personal toolbar. This used to work under 1.07

Change Camino and Firefox font sizes via scroll wheel
Authored by: josephaw on Dec 08, '05 11:59:50AM

I also disabled the CTRL-Scroll wheel using simular meta tags.

Change Camino and Firefox font sizes via scroll wheel
Authored by: mania on Dec 06, '05 04:41:32PM

goes to show you if you aren't using a 2 button mouse with a scroll wheel you are missing out on making os x super easy to use. you will be suprised how many things you can do with the right mouse button once you get one.

note to command clickers, "yeah whatever".

Change Camino and Firefox font sizes via scroll wheel
Authored by: sjk on Dec 06, '05 05:48:33PM

It's control-click, wiseguy. ;-)

Change Camino and Firefox font sizes via scroll wheel
Authored by: Stecchino on Dec 07, '05 06:25:21AM

Thanks!
Works great in FireFox 1.5.

Change Camino and Firefox font sizes via scroll wheel
Authored by: fredshome on Dec 07, '05 06:40:11AM

This is a standard feature of Mozilla/Firefox and has been for a while. It should work on any platform (i.e. Unix and presumably Windows) using the Ctrl key.

Note however that it doesn't change the size of the images (like Opera does with its Zoom feature).

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Fred in Paris.

Change Camino and Firefox font sizes via scroll wheel
Authored by: epastoor on Dec 07, '05 08:49:05AM

I just tried this on my Windows 2000 Machine running IE...(I know)... but this worked there as well. Big time saver! Thanks!

It's ctrl-alt-Scrollwheel in Camino (1.0)
Authored by: tobyvoss on Mar 06, '06 08:31:23AM

Use ctrl-alt-Scrollwheel in Camino (1.0) to change display font sizes.

It's ctrl-Scrollwheel in Camino (1.0)
Authored by: tobyvoss on Mar 06, '06 08:35:29AM

DUH - ctrl-Scrollwheel only. no alt required, sorry!

It's ctrl-Scrollwheel in Camino (1.0)
Authored by: PancakeMan on Mar 06, '06 11:07:43AM

Or, with a trackpad, CTRL-two-fingers up or down.

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