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Disable scroll wheel zoom in Firefox

Last updated: Fri, 10/01/2010 - 7:24pm

This is probably an annoyance for all those that use keyboard CTRL commands (like, CTRL-C and CTRL-V) and accidentally keep hitting CTRL + mouse scroll wheel, which zooms in and out, or enlarges and decreases text size in your browser...

Here's how to disable that in firefox...

Firefox:

In your address bar, type in

about:config

search for

mousewheel.withcontrolkey.action

Change the value to "0"

Restart your browser, and you're all set.

Google Chrome

Nothing available at the time of this writing...

Comments

Submitted by Dan (not verified) on

Awesome, thanks. Ctrl+scroll on the mac zooms the screen, but if I lifted a key (such as the tab in ctrl+tab) then scrolled, firefox would unexpectedly shrink or grow the font size. This has fixed that.

Submitted by Appel (not verified) on

Works like a charm, thanks! Now if only there's a way to disable this behaviour in Notepad++...

Submitted by duntuk on

@Appel, Yeah, I have the same issue with notepad++, but from what I know it's not possible to disable or change this.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Thx so much man!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

thank you. this feature is incredibly annoying and i always forget how to get my fonts back to normal after accidentally activating it

Submitted by pc-wurm (not verified) on

Thank you for this simple and awesome information. I have set the value to "1" instead of "0" and it keeps the scrolling behavior even if the CTRL is hit.

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