...meanwhile we still can't use "pinch to zoom" (trackpad) in Firefox, which is available in Safari and Chrome for like 5 years now. Such a basic feature! It's the main reason i personally stopped using Firefox.
As a programmer, I really dislike remarks like this. There are so, so many features that are just as basic as that. All software will have features of this caliber that are not implemented, disregarding the thousands upon thousands of equivalently "basic" features that are.
Remember how people got in arms because Mozilla Firefox had some preference that allowed people to disable loading images and javascript whole scale across the browser? Well, I imagine Mozilla wouldn't be too excited to see blog posts like this: https://blog.codinghorror.com/this-is-what-happens-when-you-...
So what do we get? We get bugs that sit in Bugzilla for five years and nobody wants to do anything about it.
* I am not a Mozilla employee and I can't speak for Mozilla
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2011032210281240...
I assume you're on a mac since you mention Safari? I don't have a mac. Please give it a try with the latest nightly. It should loom something like https://i.imgur.com/2EgjCIO.png
The article says this feature depends on support from your hardware.
Of course, in the typical Mozilla fashion there is a six year old bug that seems related https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632733
I don't know what to say. Sigh.
What i was referring to was the "smooth" pinch to zoom like Safari and Chrome which works on any webpage (text + images). I don't know how to properly describe it, here's the example: http://i.imgur.com/AvLLbuy.gif
>I assume you're on a mac since you mention Safari?
Yea, a Macbook with a touchpad.
I hate the pinch to zoom on any platform: on mobile it always rotates the view when I want north to be up (so I use the +/- buttons); and on a touchpad with one hand... I mean, my thumb is opposable but my other fingers are not made to move more in that direction. I'd have to get my other hand away from the keyboard (or from under my head, depending on what I'm doing). I'm curious how others do this.
actually i never thought about that. I just noticed that the person in the example video http://i.imgur.com/AvLLbuy.gif seems to use Thumb+Index finger.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pinch-to-zoom...