Enable, Use Pinch & Zoom Gestures on Macbook Touchpad for Firefox 4

Do you have a multitouch trackpad or a Macbook, then you might be using  pinch-to-zoom to zoom in and out of web pages in your browser. But, Firefox 4 disabled them by default. But you can get them back.

Use Pinch-to-Zoom Feature in Firefox 4

Firefox 4 disabled the two finger pinch/zoom gestures on a Mac and multi-touch touchpad. Here is how to make pinch/zoom work again.

Step 1: type about:config in your address bar and press Enter.

Step 2: Type pinch in the search bar to bring up the pinch-to-zoom gesture commands which are disabled by default.

Step 3: Find the following commands and double-click to bring up a dialog box where you have to enter the values mentioned below.

You can also cycle through tabs with a twist rotate gesture…

Once that’s done, the pinch and zoom gestures along with twist rotate tab switching controls should work in Firefox 4.

Also See: Prevent Firefox Slowing Down your System: Reduce Memory Hogging

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