There is also another setting for mousewheel.with_control.action – if you’re on Windows and using Ctrl+click to open links in a new tab, then you’ll need to set this to 1 so that it scrolls instead of zooms when holding down the Ctrl key. Other valid values are 0 (do nothing), 1 (scroll normally – this is what I set it to), and 2 (go backwards and forwards in your browsing history)Ĭhange the value from 3 to 1 and you’re set to scroll. The default value of this is 3 – which means if you’re holding down the meta (Command) key and you use the mouse wheel, it zooms the page. Make sure that this change helps to solve your mouse problems.
Once this setting is made, click Apply, then OK. To change this, type in about:config in the address bar and then search for the setting mousewheel.with_meta.action Fix Mouse Zooming Instead of Scrolling (Solved) - Windows. With Firefox, the default behaviour out-of-the-box is that if you’re holding down the ⌘ key and you scroll the page with the scroll-wheel on the mouse, then instead of scrolling, it zooms the page in and out. Feedly to read the news, and as I scroll down the page, I like to use ⌘+click to open the links in a new tab. I will often open up a page with a lot of links, e.g.
