Closed Bug 1165327 Opened 10 years ago Closed 5 years ago

The devtools zoom hijacks the browser zoom keyboard shortcuts

Categories

(DevTools :: General, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INACTIVE

People

(Reporter: pbro, Unassigned)

Details

We had a discussion on IRC today with shorlander. Stephen's point was that it seemed unexpected that devtools would hijack the browser zoom shortcuts. It's very easy for a user not to know what is currently focused: the browser content or the the devtools frame, and therefore it's easy to expect the zoom in/out shortcuts to work no matter what you ended up focusing last. Being able to zoom the devtools content is important, just as setting a custom font-size in your code editor is, but it's the kind of things you do once at the beginning. So we could: - add an setting in the devtools settings panel - and have a more complex keyboard shortcut instead of hijacking cmd/ctrl +-0
It was also discussed that in the browser toolbox or detached (window-host) toolbox, since those are a separate windows, the usual browser zoom bindings should still work.
I argue against changing the shortcuts for consistency and discoverability reasons. In Firebug we explicitly used Ctrl/Cmd + +/-/0 for this reason. And as far as I remember there were no complaints that they conflict with the browser zoom shortcuts. Also, this problem will be mitigated/solved when shortcuts are configurable (bug 1116951). Sebastian
Product: Firefox → DevTools

No activity for 5 years (and no complaints or requirements for this), closing.

Honza

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
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