Re:Firefox 84.0
by mdoms on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:52PM
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It's a fresh install and that's enabled. Let's be clear here: there is pinch to zoom. But it's an extremely half-assed implementation that is most certainly NOT native and feels terrible. I like Firefox but this has been a deal breaker for me for literally years. I don't understand why their zooming and scrolling can be so good on Android but so awful in Windows.
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When you pinch does it jump between zoom levels in large increments or is it smooth? The large jumping was the old behavior – check about:config's browser.gesture.pinch settings are all empty and not mapped to ctrl+ or anything. I haven't tried on Windows but on macOS the native zoom is smooth and pretty good
As a last ditch attempt you could try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-touch-z...
But if that doesn't work it may hint that pinch gestures aren't being passed to firefox properly; try pinch zooming on maps.google.com, if that doesn't work then maybe there's a deeper issue going on
It no longer jumps in big increments but it's still janky and very much non-native.
Re:Firefox 84.0
by jamienicol on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:51PM
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Why do you mean by non-native?
If it's janky it might "just" be a performance issue. If you could grab a profile from profiler.firefox.com that would be much appreciated
By non-native I mean non-native. I am definitely not going to do that, I will simply keep using Edge.
Re:Firefox 84.0
by jamienicol on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @06:31AM
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I'm really struggling to understand what you mean by "non-native" other than "different to edge". But even that's not useful: different how? Too fast, too slow, too sensitive, not sensitive enough?