stop Firefox zooming

August 14, 2008 4:38 PM

How to stop Firefox from auto zooming the entire page.

Firefox 3.0.1 will sometimes automatically decide to zoom pages (text+images) so they take up the whole window width. If I hit CTRL+0, it goes back to normal size.
Hunted through settings, about:config, google, etc., have not found where to turn it off.

posted by signal to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

I have never seen this behavior. Do you have a URL of a page on which this consistently happens?
posted by kindall at 4:43 PM on August 14, 2008

Best answer: Does this help? I can't figure out where Firefox stores the site specific zoom settings.
posted by stopgap at 5:01 PM on August 14, 2008

Do you want it to just increase/decrease the text? If so, go to View > Zoom > Zoom Text Only (last item). Once that's selected, when you soom in and out, just the text will change.
posted by kittydelsol at 5:03 PM on August 14, 2008

Response by poster: That was it stopgap. Thanks!
posted by signal at 5:23 PM on August 14, 2008

My guess (it used to happen to me) is that you are doing ctrl+(mouse_scroll). In about:config there is an integer mousewheel.withcontrolkey.action. It does 4 different things depending on the value:

0 scroll by lines
1 scroll by page
2 move around in the history
3 page zoom in/out [DEFAULT]
(the documentation i linked to says text zoom, but i confirmed that it is page zoom in ff3)

I set mine to 1, which makes it act as a faster scroll than normal.

On preview, it looks like the question has been answered, but I feel this is valuable information and similar enough to the topic at hand.
posted by traco at 5:28 PM on August 14, 2008

awww shucks. I came to this thread because I thought maybe there was a shortcut for "make this page fill the full window width, and to hell with the web designer". No such luck.
posted by jepler at 5:37 PM on August 14, 2008