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On my Mac OSX 10.6.2 why does the touch pad zoom in/out feature no longer work with the FF4 upgrade?

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Lani009
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The zoom in/out feature of the touch pad still works offline and in Safari with no glitches at all. The problem only occurs with Firefox 4.

Maybe a patch is needed? Can anyone help please!

The zoom in/out feature of the touch pad still works offline and in Safari with no glitches at all. The problem only occurs with Firefox 4. Maybe a patch is needed? Can anyone help please!

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cor-el
cor-el
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Some gestures have been removed in Firefox 4.

You can restore the zoom feature by changing the values of the related prefs on the about:config page. 

browser.gesture.pinch.in -> cmd_fullZoomReduce
browser.gesture.pinch.in.shift -> cmd_fullZoomReset
browser.gesture.pinch.out -> cmd_fullZoomEnlarge
browser.gesture.pinch.out.shift -> cmd_fullZoomReset
browser.gesture.pinch.latched -> false

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.
You can use the Filter bar at to top of the about:config page to locate a pref more easily.

Lani009
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Thanks... trying it now. Will let you know how it goes.

Lani009
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Yep... restarted the mac even, but to no avail! still no touch pad control over firefox 4 (followed instructions to the letter, only possible question could be if placing a space between -> cdm and typing ->cdm instead... don't think that would have effect though)

Thanks anyway.

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