#Mouse wheel zooming instead of scrolling windows
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. While scrolling down, the page or really anything that can be scrolled moves up a couple of pixels and it can be really annoying. At least, scrolling page is default feature of scroll button, so please don't change its behaviour. It appears on PCs and laptop and it’s not exclusive to a certain version of Windows OS. scroll vertical bar by simple scroll, scroll horizontal bar by Shift + scroll, And about zooming, please use these instead: zoom in: Ctrl + Scroll Up. This will happen in any application including native Windows programs like File explorer or WordPad. If you didn’t know, if you press any of the CTRL keys and scroll upwards or downwards, the mouse’s scroll will produce zooming. (I'm NOT holding down the CNTL key.) visual-studio-2010 zooming vertical-scrolling. Other than closing and re-opening Visual Studio, how can I switch back the functionality to make scroll instead of zoom. Do the same for Zoom Cockpit view (but scroll the wheel in the opposite direction of course). Make sure you are not moving the mouse while doing this or it will register a different axis. Press and hold thumb button and then scroll mouse. To change this, type in about:config in the address bar and then search for the setting mousewheel.with_meta.action Mouse scroll wheel ‘jumps’ usually appear while users are scrolling downwards with their mouse. As it turns out, one of the most common causes that will trigger this kind of behavior is a stuck CTRL-key. I don't know what happens, but every once in a while, when I want to scroll down with the mouse wheel, the IDE zooms instead of scrolls. Find Unzoom Cockpit View and click to select it 3. 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.
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I will often open up a page with a lot of links, e.g.