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Lost a great feature!

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Contributed by: Strider72 Tuesday, October 17 2006 @ 07:52 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: YES

In v1.5 you could change font size by holding <command> and using the scroll wheel (<control> on Windows). As a person with so-so vision, I use this ***all the time***.

It's gone as of any of the v2 betas/RCs I've seen. I sure as heck hope they put this back for the final release! HELP!!!!

It would also be nice if all those plugins worked in the RC, but I can be patient for those.... ;)   

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8 comments |

Lost a great feature! - merrillfb

So, unlike the Anger Management candidate in the next comment, I agree that removing a working feature seems kind of dumb. However, wanted to note the Control-ScrollWheel feature silently introduced in 10.4.8. You can magnify with the scroll wheel now in CoreImage capable GPUs.

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Tuesday, October 17 2006 @ 09:33 AM PDT


THANKS! I didn't even know that feature was there... n/t - Jeronimo2000

Having bad eyesight myself, this is very good to know!

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Tuesday, October 17 2006 @ 03:32 PM PDT


Lost a great feature! - adrien

It's still there. Use the control key with the wheel........

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Tuesday, October 17 2006 @ 08:08 PM PDT


Lost a great feature! - adrien

It's still there. Use the control key with the wheel........

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Tuesday, October 17 2006 @ 08:08 PM PDT


Lost a great feature! - reallynotnick

I have always used Apple(+)= and -. The two keys between 0 and delete. Have used it sense IE 5, god those were bad days.

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Thursday, October 19 2006 @ 03:02 PM PDT


Lost a great feature! - mateen.thobani_dotmac

Thanks, those keys made my day. Until now, Safari was my default browser mainly because I had the buttons in the tool bar that allowed me to increase the font size with just one tap. Now that I've discovered these Apple keys, I'm switching to Firefox. There are several websites that don't work well with Safari.

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Sunday, October 22 2006 @ 01:37 AM PDT


Lost a great feature! - info2101

Control + Option (Alt) + Wheel also have effect on text size.

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Monday, October 23 2006 @ 05:44 PM PDT


Lost a great feature! - wildwolf1

OK, so now you have to use Control + Option (Alt) + Wheel instead of Apple + Wheel for the same effect. I can't imaging any good reason for these change. Oh well.

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Monday, October 23 2006 @ 06:32 PM PDT