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woah! l33t find! calling all firefox users with mice with scroll wheels!!!!!

post #1 of 22
10/28/04 at 4:18am
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i just accidentally discovered that by holding the ctrl key and moving either up or down with the scroll wheel will change the text size of the web page in firefox! l33t!
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post #2 of 22
10/28/04 at 4:24am
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Originally Posted by gr8gatzby
i just accidentally discovered that by holding the ctrl key and moving either up or down with the scroll wheel will change the text size of the web page in firefox! l33t!
How long have you been using FireFox?
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post #3 of 22
10/28/04 at 6:15am
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since about 2.x years before it was actually called firefox.

i'm always the last to find out about things, and in the rest of life....
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post #4 of 22
10/28/04 at 7:56am
Same for IE
Prolly not mozilla's idea
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post #5 of 22
10/28/04 at 10:44am
Heh, that is kinda weird. Never knew about that. Here's what I wanna know: Was it before or after you took that prescibed medical substanace that you discovered this?
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post #6 of 22
10/28/04 at 11:22am
That is sweet never knew that!!
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post #7 of 22
10/28/04 at 12:22pm
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Originally Posted by Enderet
How long have you been using FireFox?
heh, no kidding! That's funny when someone who uses something for so long discovers one of the basic things... I've done it myself, so I know the feeling.

-myrkat

PS: SHIFT+wheel is back and forward...
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post #8 of 22
10/28/04 at 12:25pm
Sorry ThomasB, IE is not much of an originator since 3.0 (except for security flaws)... it was a Mozilla original. Opera allowed the scaling (first browser, that I know of) but they did not use the wheel on the mouse until later (after Mozilla).

Firefox (Phoenix) naturally had it, as it was Mozilla-based.

-myrkat
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post #9 of 22
10/28/04 at 2:28pm
lol I was laughing at your "l33t" find until myrkat listed the Shift-wheel combo, put me in my place
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post #10 of 22
10/28/04 at 2:39pm


Same here.
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post #11 of 22
10/28/04 at 4:19pm
I didnt know the shift + wheel one... I just use the extra two buttons on my mouse for that.

The control + scroll wheel i found out right after I started using FireFox which was about 3-4 months ago.
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post #12 of 22
10/28/04 at 4:53pm
y0ur n0s rox0rs! Im 1337es7 of all... bah, I can't do that after a few...

What I still would like to see in Firefox is what Opera has (and I miss so much): CONTROL-G to toggle ALL graphics on or off... what a job-saver that was (i.e. here comes the boss, don't let him see yer lookin at the female-rating thread!). LOL!!1!!

-myrkat
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post #13 of 22
10/28/04 at 5:34pm
lol my amazing firefox discovery was finding that clicking with the scroll button on a link launched it in a new tab...

Was doing it when I didn't even know that I was going nuts to try to figure out what was wrong with this one website because it kept launching new tabs every so often.
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post #14 of 22
10/28/04 at 7:32pm
Man, that's almost worthy of n00b of the week! The middle-click was (and is) Firefox/Mozilla's biggest thing! Heh.

OK, HERE YU0S ALL GO:
MOUSE COMMANDS
KEYBOARD COMMANDS
RTFM y0us lazy bastages

-myrkat (don't say I never do nuthin for ya's)
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post #15 of 22
10/28/04 at 7:41pm
Thanks Myrkat
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post #16 of 22
10/28/04 at 9:39pm
mykrat, you never do nuthin fo' me!
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post #17 of 22
10/29/04 at 5:24am
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myrkat is the key master/gate keeper/underwater basket weaver of all time. if he only shared .000028834% of his omniscience with the little peoples half the time!!!!
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post #18 of 22
10/30/04 at 1:06am
Sweet. I've only been using it for about 3 months. Still trying to remember all the keyboard shortcuts. Now ya'll have to go and toss mouse shortcuts into the mix. Particularly those that I don't use with my 5-button mouse.
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post #19 of 22
10/30/04 at 11:01am
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Originally Posted by myrkat
Man, that's almost worthy of n00b of the week! The middle-click was (and is) Firefox/Mozilla's biggest thing! Heh.
-myrkat (don't say I never do nuthin for ya's)
Well to make it worse I only was using Firefox on a few sites that kept crashing in my IE (a problem I have since fixed, DLL integrity problem) and so I thought there was problems in the source code causing both IE to crash and Firefox to randomly launch new tabs!

I always use the middle button to scroll not the wheel and so it was happening a lot.
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post #20 of 22
10/31/04 at 7:51pm
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OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just compeltely discovered by accident another l33t find!!!! i hit f11 and firebird went fullscreen!!!! wtf!!!!! what kind of lottery have my eyes won!!!! g33k pr0n!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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