Firefox on Mac tip for trackpad users 0 ▲ Justin Reeves 1 hour ago · Tech · hide · 0 comments In Firefox on Mac, if you double tap to zoom (smart zoom) on something (for example, a column of text), by default, and unlike Safari, the scrolling is very “loose,” making it very difficult to scroll in a straight line. But if you change `apz.axis_lock.mode` to `1` in the advanced settings (`about:config`), it makes the scrolling very stable, linear, at least as much as Safari, maybe more. But the option should really be in the regular settings. (The default is `2`; change it to `3`, and, counter-intuitively, it’s looser than `1`, but tighter than `2`.) But it could be worse, not only is the default scrolling in Chrome loose, with, to my knowledge, no way to tighten it, but Chrome still doesn’t smart zoom text correctly on Mac. It leaves the column with no margin or padding. Firefox’s loose scrolling was, apparently, a fairly recent change emulating Chrome. What doesn’t quite make sense to me, is Chrome’s shipped a CSS setting to disable scroll locking (disable stable linear… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.