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What happened to pinch-zoom?

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I used to be able to zoom in the preview or composition panels by ctrl-wheel, ctrl plus or minus, or pinch and move on my screen or touchpad. With the last couple of updates the pinch-zoom feature no longer works. Can this please be restored?

I used to be able to zoom in the preview or composition panels by ctrl-wheel, ctrl plus or minus, or pinch and move on my screen or touchpad. With the last couple of updates the pinch-zoom feature no longer works. Can this please be restored?

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Ctrl+wheel or +/- works here as before. Does it work in safe/troubleshoot mode (hold Shift when launching TB)?

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All the other zoom options work. Just not pinch-zoom. It also does not work in safe mode.

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I think it's probably due to the touchpad software being updated to an incompatible version or not being updated to a compatible version.

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Do you mean in the driver? Or in Thunderbird? The pinch-zoom works everywhere else including in Firefox. I should note that I am using Firefox 56.0.2. If I upgrade to a newer version of Firefox then one of my plugins (Video Download Helper) no longer works.

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Oddly enough, the pinch-zoom works if I hold down the ctrl key. Something that was not required before.

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Yes, it might be the touchpad driver or software. Video DownloadHelper appears to work in FF 57 and higher.

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What's your version of TB? Pinch-zoom works here with a touchpad on TB 91.4. It works with or without holding Ctrl.

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It seems that pinch-zoom still works, except I now have to hold the ctrl key down during. So whatever change was made to Thunderbird (my other apps still work as before) I now require two hands instead of one. Not an improvement.