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A number of websites now use pinch gestures to zoom in on their canvas, e.g. Lucid, Miro. Those pinch gestures are interpreted by Orion as being page zoom in/out (or to show tab view), which makes using those websites much more difficult and can cause rendering problems (page partially zoomed in when it shouldn't).

If there was the ability to either:

a) turn pinch to zoom on/off as a global setting, or
b) turn pinch to zoom on/off on a domain level

this would completely negate those negatives. This is for Desktop, as I believe Mobile now has a feature that achieves the same outcome.

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      13 days later

      Are there any updates on this?

      This issue has a significant impact on many websites that are widely used in various workplaces, such as Figma, Miro, Mural and others. Could you please provide an update on this? What is the expected timeframe for a resolution?

      It's been over a year since the initial ticket was raised.

      • Vlad replied to this.

        Panda The problem is not easy to solve, Apple is using a private feature in Safari for this that we do not have access to.

            a month later

            Hi,

            I experience this issue, in figma and google maps too.

            Regards

              24 days later

              What I need is just the ability to disable the pinch to zoom default behaviour, which is to launch the tab switching UI. Once that's disabled, I can then use those tools as usual I believe. Vlad, could you consider a single check box to disable default tab switching gesture control?

              Would disabling pinch out to tab overview be acceptable for everyone here?

                I would be fine losing that behavior. I honestly only ever triggered it accidentally and never found it useful.

                Thanks,
                Wes

                5 days later

                Vlad

                If that will solve the issue then I'm fine with that. But, it doesn't sound like it'll actually solve the underlying zooming issue on websites. It sounds like a separate issue/feature/tweak.

                Please correct me if I'm wrong.

                    @Vlad You are correct, I don't believe it will fix the underlying issue. I filed this bug well before pinching out to tabs overview was implemented.

                      I don’t think it will solve all issues, certainly not where apple does something bespoke etc (maps). But I believe it will help on websites that have more generic implementations and stop accidental pinches (a huge frustration of mine personally). I was having no issue with Miro, Lucid, or Figma (I think) when using browsers without this pinch to switch tab mechanic.

                      Personally I think the pinch to switch tab toggle is a good first step. If that solves x% of the problems that’s still an improvement for presumably little effort. I’d rather that now, than wait a year for something perfect.

                        16 days later

                        Vlad The optimal solution It would be disabling the pinch out to tab overview/zoom while the cursor is over a canvas (like in Chrome)

                            @pow_ext I don't think so. There are uses for pinch to zoom outside of canvas elements.

                              wes I mean, it would at least cover most of the cases, like maps, documents, google docs and so on.
                              Chrome does use this method, you could try like in google maps, pinching to zoom over and off a canvas.

                              More edge cases, that are maybe needs still to be found and specified in this thread, are probably gonna be covered with some extra fix

                                  a month later
                                  Vlad changed the title to Pinch/zoom getures not forwarded to browser .

                                    Steps to reproduce:
                                    The mac touchpad zoom gesture zooms the whole webpage instead of the embedded file (pdf). This works perfectly fine in other chromium or webkit based browsers, so I guess this might be a bug? It can be reproduced with any websites using Adobe Acrobat's online reader.

                                    Expected behavior:
                                    Zoom gesture is expected to zoom in/out pdf rather than zooming the whole webpage.

                                    Orion, OS version; hardware type:
                                    Orion Version 0.99.124.3-beta (WebKit 616.1.14.11.1)
                                    MacBook Pro (macOS Ventura 13.4 build 22F66)

                                      PS: zooming gesture acts in a similar behaviour with the default pdf viewer in Orion. So it's not specific to adobe's pdf viewer.

                                        orionlover changed the title to Touchpad zoom gesture always zooms the whole webpage instead of zooming pdf files .