Lately I've been having a problem with Firefox. I use the middle mousewheel to scroll web pages. Lately though whenever I try to use it it seems to increase or decrease the size of the font of the page I'm looking at.
If anyone has any information on what I might need to do to get it to stop would be helpful. Thanks
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July 27th, 2007 10:21 PM #1Moderator
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Firefox problem
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July 27th, 2007 10:46 PM #2Administrator
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Normally that is the behavior for holding down the shift key and scrolling.
It sounds like somehow you have changed that behavior to do it without the shift key held down.Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my Uncle Jack off a horse." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse."
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July 27th, 2007 11:00 PM #3Tree Frog
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If you hit ctrl and scroll, it changes the size of the text. Make sure your ctrl key isn't stuck.
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July 28th, 2007 04:43 AM #4Moderator
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Almost certainly.Originally posted by Ysadri
If you hit ctrl and scroll, it changes the size of the text. Make sure your ctrl key isn't stuck.
What I find annoying is mixing scrolling with ctrl-clicking to open links in tabs. For instance, if I have the contents page of a large reference work, or a page of search results, and I want to view all (or a large number) of the results, I want to scroll down the list and ctrl-click on everything. And if I fail to release Ctrl in time, bam! Text goes huge.The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right people, and in the right way and at the right time and for the right length of time, is commended. - Aristotle (but not the Aristotle you're thinking of)
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I pressed the Ctrl key, but I'm still not in control!
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Thanks. I'll see if that's the problem next time it occurs.
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