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September 1, 2009 4:16 PM 
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My Macbook Pro display keeps randomly resizing to different resolutions. It started suddenly, about a month ago. What happened? Can I make it stop?
I got a new MBP in April 2009. Everything else is running fine, but every few links clicked or pages loaded in Firefox, the display seems to change resolution. It zooms in a little, gets blurry, and will either resize to a bigger font size, or go back to where it was. Regarding the former, it is always fixable with the CMD + or -.
A little while ago, the resolution of the whole screen randomly changed - no provocation on my part, near as I could tell - and the whole screen resolution got HUGE! Things weren't fitting on the screen. I tried to change it through display settings in System Preferences, and even setting the display back to 1440x900 didn't help. I then decided to restart, whereupon my resolution shrank back to "normal," and all was right with the world.
What happened? Is there something wrong with my MBP? Have other people experienced similar problems? Is there a way to make this naughty behavior stop?
posted by honeybee413 to computers & internet (3 comments total)
Aha. That's not the resolution changing. That's you hitting Control-Twofingerscroll. You can disable zoom in the Universal Access control panel.
posted by majick at 4:18 PM on September 1 [1 favorite]