Trackpad Accidental Safari Resizing and Horizontal Scrolling -- Ugh!!
Obviously some other people are also having trouble with this, so I wanted to start a separate thread just on this issue.
I really can't stand the new trackpad's behavior in Safari. It almost makes me not want to surf the web anymore.
Some of these new trackpad finger commands that affect my surfing are just ludicrous! And you can't turn most of them off! It's insane.
Bottom line: My thumb likes to rest on the trackpad sometimes (it's more ergonomic, rather than hovering your thumb above the pad or shuffling it back and forth) but then if I also move my index finger while the thumb's in place, it often unintentionally resizes all the fonts in Safari.
Now I've at times chosen to resize webpage fonts (using command+plus) as needed but now it's FREQUENTLY unintentionally changing them while I do basic surfing. Sorry, but my thumb does need a place to rest and it's going to be on the trackpad some times. Apple really needs to let people turn this annoying feature off. And soon. People don't resize their webpage fonts THAT often to warrant a trackpad command. And I don't think my thumb will get trained over time. Ergonomically it's simply better for you if it can rest on the trackpad as you need it to click there often.
And then they took away the option to turn off horizontal scrolling! Sorry, but I don't like scrolling down a webpage with two fingers only to find I've lost the left margin and am swimming somewhere to the right in the middle of the page. It's totally cool if other people like that, but we should be able to set our own preferences, particularly for something as personal as finger commands (and wow, the page just jumped 2 font sizes just now when I moved to edit a typo).
Come on Apple, give us back a computer we can 100% love! Give us options. And stop the webpage crazy-thinking. Let us get back to doing our jobs and surfing efficiently and quickly.
I don't need this page or any other in a 7 point then 72 point font . . . ever.
Message was edited by: andintroducing
I really can't stand the new trackpad's behavior in Safari. It almost makes me not want to surf the web anymore.
Some of these new trackpad finger commands that affect my surfing are just ludicrous! And you can't turn most of them off! It's insane.
Bottom line: My thumb likes to rest on the trackpad sometimes (it's more ergonomic, rather than hovering your thumb above the pad or shuffling it back and forth) but then if I also move my index finger while the thumb's in place, it often unintentionally resizes all the fonts in Safari.
Now I've at times chosen to resize webpage fonts (using command+plus) as needed but now it's FREQUENTLY unintentionally changing them while I do basic surfing. Sorry, but my thumb does need a place to rest and it's going to be on the trackpad some times. Apple really needs to let people turn this annoying feature off. And soon. People don't resize their webpage fonts THAT often to warrant a trackpad command. And I don't think my thumb will get trained over time. Ergonomically it's simply better for you if it can rest on the trackpad as you need it to click there often.
And then they took away the option to turn off horizontal scrolling! Sorry, but I don't like scrolling down a webpage with two fingers only to find I've lost the left margin and am swimming somewhere to the right in the middle of the page. It's totally cool if other people like that, but we should be able to set our own preferences, particularly for something as personal as finger commands (and wow, the page just jumped 2 font sizes just now when I moved to edit a typo).
Come on Apple, give us back a computer we can 100% love! Give us options. And stop the webpage crazy-thinking. Let us get back to doing our jobs and surfing efficiently and quickly.
I don't need this page or any other in a 7 point then 72 point font . . . ever.
Message was edited by: andintroducing
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