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Firefox has a magnifier in the url bar. It activates for no reason. The arrow pointer does not move but the magnifier keeps going up and down 110%- 145%- 38% all over the place. only hitting escape several times and then touching the magnifier resets it back to 100% {normal} is there a way of eliminating this feature alltogether? Any help would be appreciated.

Firefox has a magnifier in the url bar. It activates for no reason. The arrow pointer does not move but the magnifier keeps going up and down 110%- 145%- 38% all over the place. only hitting escape several times and then touching the magnifier resets it back to 100% {normal} is there a way of eliminating this feature alltogether? Any help would be appreciated.

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Check that your keyboard Ctrl keys are not stuck, holding them down while scrolling will zoom the page.

You can disable this by changing mousewheel.with_control.action to -1 in about:config.

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Check that your keyboard Ctrl keys are not stuck, holding them down while scrolling will zoom the page.

You can disable this by changing mousewheel.with_control.action to -1 in about:config.

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Never would have found about:config or what needed to be configured, thank you. P.S. Has nothing to do with stuck keys. Touching the touch pad and try to click on a link in a page or copy a picture and magnify went nuts. Thanks again.