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Firefox Zoom View

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Hello Firefox World. My question concerns zoom view. I would like to be able to set the zoom view to whatever % I like – as I can in most other software – and not be limited to the fixed increments in the Firefox menu. To adjust the zoom, I click on the menu button (3 horizontal bars) at top right, then click ‘+’ or ‘-‘ to adjust the % setting. But that functionality only offers fixed %s in rather large increments (eg 30%, 50%, 67%, 80%, 90%, 100%, 110%, 120%, 133%, 150%, 170%, 200%) with as much as 20% and 30% differences between increments. Huge differences! There does not seem to be any ability to enter the exact zoom % I want, whatever the #, as in Internet Explorer or Microsoft Office applications. In those, I would simply click on the zoom % setting at the bottom right corner of the screen (in the status bar) and then enter whatever # I choose. Ideally that would be an option in Firefox too – perhaps by clicking on the zoom % shown in the menu (between the ‘-‘ and ‘+’) and typing in a new #. I am perplexed why that functionality is not already built into the software. I am aware of the existing “default zoom” setting but this question is not about the default zoom but rather making adjustments on the fly and as needed. Solutions?

Respectfully – Daniel Firefox 84 | Windows 10

Hello Firefox World. My question concerns zoom view. I would like to be able to set the zoom view to whatever % I like – as I can in most other software – and not be limited to the fixed increments in the Firefox menu. To adjust the zoom, I click on the menu button (3 horizontal bars) at top right, then click ‘+’ or ‘-‘ to adjust the % setting. But that functionality only offers fixed %s in rather large increments (eg 30%, 50%, 67%, 80%, 90%, 100%, 110%, 120%, 133%, 150%, 170%, 200%) with as much as 20% and 30% differences between increments. Huge differences! There does not seem to be any ability to enter the exact zoom % I want, whatever the #, as in Internet Explorer or Microsoft Office applications. In those, I would simply click on the zoom % setting at the bottom right corner of the screen (in the status bar) and then enter whatever # I choose. Ideally that would be an option in Firefox too – perhaps by clicking on the zoom % shown in the menu (between the ‘-‘ and ‘+’) and typing in a new #. I am perplexed why that functionality is not already built into the software. I am aware of the existing “default zoom” setting but this question is not about the default zoom but rather making adjustments on the fly and as needed. Solutions? Respectfully – Daniel Firefox 84 | Windows 10

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You can set your own preferred zoom values via the about:config page. You can use 5% of 10% (x.05 or x.10) zoom values.

  • toolkit.zoomManager.zoomValues
  • zoom.maxPercent
  • zoom.minPercent

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can click the button to "Accept the Risk and Continue".

Note that if you use the scroll wheel to zoom then you can only change in 10% increments starting from the current zoom value.

Modified by cor-el