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Leonardo Petrucci
Asked: 2018-12-28 06:15:27 +0800 CST

Is there anything that allows me to smoothly zoom in with a trackpad

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I've googled to hell and back about this and I cannot find any information.

Is there

  • A browser
  • An Extension
  • Any program

That allows me to smoothly zoom a Webpage with a pinching gesture on my trackpad? My laptop supports multitouch and I have a bunch of programs that emulate most touchpad gestures, I just can't believe there wouldn't be a single way to get a smooth zoom pinch on Ubuntu.

I'm not looking to bind ctrl++ to a pinch gesture on my trackpad to be completely clear.

Can anyone help?

multi-touch touchpad zooming

2 Answers

  1. If you use Firefox (recommended) which comes pre-installed with Ubuntu and its the default browser, I class it as the native browser as I have never used anything else on Ubuntu, the latest and fastest version (atow) is Firefox Quantum v70 and if you add the following extension this gives you the ability to zoom smoothly using the trackpad and I think this is exactly what you need:)

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-touch-zoom/

    Alternatively you can zoom using the keys on the keyboard or the mouse and the advantage of these is they work with all applications and do not require any additional apps or plug-ins . I myself don't like using the trackpad at all and if I want to zoom I use either the keys CTR plus "+" and CTR plus "-" to zoom in and out, or alternatively I have a wireless mouse in which case I can zoom using the middle-mouse button while pressing and holding CTRL.

    [edited] Removed this alternative as I realised it was in fact the other answer.

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  2. You can hold Ctrl and move two fingers up or down to zoom out or zoom in.

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