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>Smooth pinch-zooming using a touchpad is now supported on Linux

Glad that they're still looking after Linux users.



On the one hand yes that's great. On the other hand it's not an exaggeration to say that a decade ago would have been too late for this feature.


I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it was only added to Mac fairly recently too, maybe around a year ago. And for a while it was behind an about:config setting as well.


This doesn't work for me; found something that seems to suggest it's gated behind an about:config option and only works on Wayland anyway[0]. Oh well.

[0] https://www.linuxadictos.com/en/firefox-88-will-activate-the...


They're not treating X11 as first class citizen because it's a insecure history compared to Wayland.


Unfortunately they still don't provide a PPA for their developer build, so I have to update it manually which is extremely annoying.

edit: I gotta say, why the fuck would someone downvote this comment?


Manually? I downloaded their .tar.gz, have unpacked it in a location my user can write to, and rely on the built-in auto-update mechanism. Works fine.


PPAs are specific to one commercial distribution. Shouldn't they offer a flatpak or something similarly cross distro?




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