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Resize text in some web browsers via the scroll wheel
Authored by: adurdin on Jun 19, '06 11:10:01AM

Yeah, it's quite easy. I always mod my mice so that the scrollwheel scrolls smoothly without the 'click' (A reversible mod with most Logitech mice, but my Microsoft one needed some permanent hackery). This has also meant that the wheel occasionally scrolls a tiny fraction as I move the mouse due to its own inertia. The normal scrolling sensitivity is low enough so that this isn't a problem, but the font-size-changing is (for some reason) more sensitive -- so I'd often accidentally change the font size as I pressed Command and move the mouse to a link intending to open it in a new tab.

But you didn't want to know all that: here's what you wanted to know. Open Firefox, and enter "about:config" in the address bar. Scroll down to find "mousewheel.withmetakey.action", and double-click it to give it a value of "0" to disable the Command+scroll action.



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