1519199 - Zoom using menu option or "Ctrl+MouseWheel" on physical keyboard

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P2)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/8.2 Chrome/63.0.3239.111 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

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Actual results:

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Expected results:

Now that devices like Samsung Dex have been around for awhile, people are supplementing their main computer w/ their androids! We need to be able to zoom in & out using keyboard & mouse. Please address this by adding a zoom option to the menu (just like samsung internet) & supporting "Ctrl+MouseWheel" on physical keyboard, thank you!

Comment 1

[pavel]

+1

It would be very good if the usual Ctrl-+ and Ctrl-- would work. I'm using Firefox on android x86 PC and miss the possibility to zoom very much.

Comment 2

[u580221]

Another idea: if we assume that

1. a keyboard zoomer will also be using a hardware mouse
2. that bug 1540809 were addressed using Mechanism 2 here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1540809#c4 (which extends regular non-reflowing zoom in with an additional reflowing zoom out beyond the 1.0x limit)

... then I think it wouldn't be a bad idea to make CTRL+/- just trigger the usual zoom mechanism (the one also invoked by multitouch) with the mouse cursor as zoom center. Of course that'd differ somewhat from how the desktop version behaves. But it would also be closer to what is done on android with the other common input method of touch

Just a random idea I had.

Comment 3

[WillieLogue23]

Yes the ctrl key plays a key role here. It should be working as it would increase the flexibility https://www.mybpcreditcard.us/

Comment 4

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