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Could there be some temporary solution while Apple/WebKit deliberates on fixing this or the Orion team figures out a way around this? I find this to be a key gesture on websites such as Google Maps which are rather painful to use without this (so much so that I just end up opening a different browser).

Perhaps giving users the option to disable pinch-to-zoom on a site by site basis be a temporary workaround? I personally don't make use of the gesture at all (and normally use ⌘+ or ⌘- for zooming in/out). But this would allow me to disable the gesture for Google Maps, Figma, Miro, etc. and actually make them usable on Orion.

    7 days later

    I'm a designer by trade so this is a particularly tough issue to work around

    For those unaware, the same zoom behavior can be achieved by ⌘+scroll. Hopefully this gets native support soon!

      2 months later

      As others have said, this is a particularly dissapointing issue. It makes Orion unusable as my daily driver (and I'm very ready to switch to it).

      Hopefully the WebKit team will listen but seeing as this reported issue goes back to January 2022, it seems to not be important to them.

        Keep making your voice heard, WebKit team is usually repsonsive.

          a month later

          What happened? How did it happen? What are the steps to replicate the issue.
          Hi, when using finger pinching in figma (figma.com) to zoon in/out the gesture is not recognized properly, the page zooms in itself instead of its content.

          What did you expect to happen? Describe the desired functionality.
          expected it to work properly

          What version of Orion are you running?
          0.99.125

          • Vlad replied to this.
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              2 months later

              This is annoying. I've left a comment on Apple's bugzilla.

              As a workaround for Miro, I'm using command+two-finger-scroll up and down, which also zooms. It's not as ergonomic as pinch-zoom, but it'll do for now.

              a month later

              My tip for other people struggling with this – it might not work for every use case, but for me it's fine: I wanted to use Penpot and this issue makes it impossible in Orion. What I did was open it in Safari and use the new Share > Add to dock feature to encapsulate Penpot as an app. I can use it as if it's a desktop app with the pinch to zoom working properly, and keep using Orion as main driver for actual web browsing.

                9 days later

                Any progress on this? It seems like the Webkit team has abandoned the issue or just has no plans to fix it. They've gone silent.

                Maybe there's a different way to catch their attention?

                  12 days later

                  SInce SigmaOS shipped its own webkit engine, they can supports webextension while supporting the forwarding. Is there a chance Orion can find a way to implement this feature like what they does?

                    I use various mapping sites for work, and in other browsers I can use the double finger zooming gesture on my Mac's trackpad to zoom in and out on the map. But in Orion, using this gesture keeps zooming out to all my tabs, not on the actual map. And if it does manage to zoom on the map, it zooms to a static view and does not re-scale like it does in every other browser I've used for this (Chrome, Safari, FF).

                    This is a dealbreaker, as I need to be able to work quickly and having to use the manual +/- buttons to zoom takes up time and is cumbersome.

                    I expect to be able to zoom in and out on a map.

                    0.99.126.4.1.5-rc (WebKit 619.1.1)

                    Sonoma (14)

                      Merged 1 post from In mapping sites, zooming in/out on trackpad zooms to tabs, not on the actual map.

                        Vlad yes!!!! Thank you! This is huge for many of us to make Orion our daily driver.