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Enable Multi-touch Gestures in Firefox
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firefox-gestures.md
  1. Open about:config in Firefox
  2. Set the following values
  3. Restart Firefox
browser.snapshots.limit           5
browser.gesture.pinch.in          cmd_fullZoomReduce
browser.gesture.pinch.out         cmd_fullZoomEnlarge
browser.gesture.pinch.latched     false
browser.gesture.pinch.threshold   35

You can double tap with two fingers in trackpad to reset zoom level.

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Can't get it working on Linux. Do you know how to fix that?

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Can't get it working on Linux. Do you know how to fix that?

These changes are no longer needed in recent Firefox as pinch-zooming support was added in version 83.0 for Windows and macOS and 88.0 for Linux.

I never tried using gestures in Linux but there is a post in Reddit that might be useful.

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