863010 - Text only zooming should not be the default zoom mode

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Leif Halvard Silli]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20130326150557

Steps to reproduce:

You are primarely a user of Safari, Opera, Chrome or IE. And you decide to “come back” to Firefox. You enter a page, and use zoom to enlarge text, video, image - or the whole page.

After a while, you figured that if you want zoom to work like in the competing browsers, you have to remove the default text only zoom option ...


Actual results:

I got frustrated due to the way zoom works. I like the zooming the whole page much better, e.g. because I'm used to it.

And even if I remembered to deselect 'text only scaling' from the zoom-menu, Firefox will defaul to text only zooming as soon as I used the option to clear history (which apparently set Firefox back to its default settings - I'm not even sure I’ve understood what it is that makes Firefox stop zooming the way I want.)


Expected results:

Zooming shoud work the way zoom works in the competing browsers. You shoud make sure that, unless I watch over Firefox all the time, then zooming Firefox defaults to text only zoom as soon as it sees the chance ...

Comment 1

[Leif Halvard Silli]

(In reply to Leif Halvard Silli from comment #0)

> Expected results:

> You shoud
> make sure that, unless I watch over Firefox all the time, then zooming
> Firefox defaults to text only zoom as soon as it sees the chance ...

Meant to say that Firefox should not, when I look away for a second, should not fall back to text only zooming.

Comment 2

[mjh563]

Full page zooming should be the default, unless you manually change it. 

Does the problem still happen when you restart Firefox in safe mode? If not, then it's likely that one of your add-ons is causing text-only zoom mode to apply.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

Comment 3

[Leif Halvard Silli]

(In reply to mjh563 from comment #2)

> Does the problem still happen when you restart Firefox in safe mode?

Yes, it happens even in safe mode. 

Could there be other things than my extensions that could cause this bug only to happen in *my* copy of Firefox. Perhaps I should make a new install?

Comment 4

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Reinstalling Firefox won't help because the relevant data is stored in your "profile" directory.  When you use a new Firefox to with a very old profile, the profile should automatically have the "browser.zoom.full" preference set to true, which turns on full-page zoom by default.  Without more info it's hard to say why that apparently didn't happen.  I also don't know why clearing history would unset the preference.  That shouldn't happen, so maybe you could narrow down the exact cause of that.

You could reset your profile or create a new one, meaning you'd get a blank slate with history, bookmarks, preferences, etc., but that's drastic.

If you open Help > Troubleshooting Information and look below the "Important Modified Preferences" section in the resulting page, is there a subsection mentioning "user.js"?

Comment 5

[Leif Halvard Silli]

(In reply to Drew Willcoxon :adw from comment #4)

> You could reset your profile or create a new one, meaning you'd get a blank
> slate with history, bookmarks, preferences, etc., but that's drastic.

OK. So I just created a new profile. And then I got "scale everything" by default. 

> If you open Help > Troubleshooting Information and look below the "Important
> Modified Preferences" section in the resulting page, is there a subsection
> mentioning "user.js"?

Yup. browser.zoom.full was altered. Probably one of the addons I use. My guess would be that it is the Vimperator addon - which changes pretty much ... 

So I guess that the correct thing would be to see this bug to RESOLVED, INVALID. And say thank for the help!