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Update: Custom Firefox 3 build with “zoom.reverse”

November 25th, 2007

I really couldn’t stand the zoom behavior with the mouse the way it has been changed for Firefox 3. However zooming is such a crucial part for me I want ahead, set up a custom build environment and after hours of fiddling a patch came out.

This patch honors the (hidden) preference zoom.reverse when doing the actual zooming with the mouse (mousewheel.withcontrolkey.action == 5). You can download my custom build of Firefox 3. It’s for Windows only and it’s just a zip file, no installer required. Unzip, change the hidden pref (hint: about:config) to true and there you go. You can start it along any existing Firefox version however you probably want to start it with a custom profile first with -P otherprofile so it doesn’t temper with your existing one. By default you can only run one instance of FF, if you’re sure you want to run them simultaneously, use MOZ_NO_REMOTE.

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