<![CDATA[How to disable extremely irritating CTRL + wheel zooming]]>Problem: When doing scrolling in pages with touchpad, and switching between pages with CTRL + TAB, then "CTRL+wheel" zooming is constantly triggered.

This behavior is extremely irritating since it's happening constantly. Would think that UI engineers in Chrome/Opera would have noticed such simple failure case in mouse + keyboard operation. However, so far I have failed to find solution. Simply blaming "it's OS issue" is NOT solution.

Factually I don't ever intentionally try to do "CTRL + wheel" zooming in web browser, so I would really desire to be able disable this inconvenient behavior.

I've tried some "No MouseWheel Zoom" addon, but it fails with "touchpad scroll + "CTRL+TAB" combo, still triggering undesired zooming.

okey, factually case is "CTRL + touchpad scroll", but I believe in most touchpads that is from app point of view same as "CTRL + wheel".

[Mod note: Topic posted in wrong forum moved to more appropriate one]

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/26751/how-to-disable-extremely-irritating-ctrl-wheel-zoomingRSS for NodeSun, 19 Apr 2026 15:47:06 GMTSat, 19 May 2018 19:53:52 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How to disable extremely irritating CTRL + wheel zooming on Fri, 18 Feb 2022 13:11:19 GMT]]>Any updates on being able to disable this in Opera settings, or is there an official feature request to make that happen somewhere?

@kikonen It's not a bug. You can request a way to disable the shortcut in the proper forum.

Anyone have a link to that for a casual user here?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/274749https://forums.opera.com/post/274749Fri, 18 Feb 2022 13:11:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to disable extremely irritating CTRL + wheel zooming on Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:44:38 GMT]]>Guys i found the solution, this addon works for me
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zoom-block/jmomepcgehgfoimapeoinphcloinjfpb/related?hl=en

i use Opera on Mac Big Sur

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/267641https://forums.opera.com/post/267641Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:44:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to disable extremely irritating CTRL + wheel zooming on Mon, 12 Oct 2020 21:38:20 GMT]]>It helps if you have a way to monitor scrolling events and a way to disable the problematic pointer device temporarily. I do not know how you do it in Windows and macOS. Even in Wayland it seems to be impossible to disable only a pointer device, if the device is pointer & keyboard combo. But in X11 it can be handled well.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/228680https://forums.opera.com/post/228680Mon, 12 Oct 2020 21:38:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to disable extremely irritating CTRL + wheel zooming on Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:59:58 GMT]]>@jarnos Actually I just realized plugin what I had earlier tried was likely "No Mouse Wheel Zoom", thus older plugin doing same thing. Need to give change for this new plugin to see how it works.

And yes, sometimes this one also hits same race conditions.

I.e.

  1. Start scrolling page with wheel (our touchpad)
  2. Change page with CTRL + TAB
    => sometimes random zooming is hit, amount depends how fast page was scrolling at step (1)
]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/228654https://forums.opera.com/post/228654Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:59:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to disable extremely irritating CTRL + wheel zooming on Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:11:00 GMT]]>@kikonen Yes, the extension is not perfect; there seems to be race condition.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/228537https://forums.opera.com/post/228537Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:11:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to disable extremely irritating CTRL + wheel zooming on Sun, 11 Oct 2020 17:37:19 GMT]]>@jarnos personally I need solution working on win/lin/osx. Regarding that plugin, I recall trying it, and irritatingly it does not work in all cases, when switching between tabs fast

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/228488https://forums.opera.com/post/228488Sun, 11 Oct 2020 17:37:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to disable extremely irritating CTRL + wheel zooming on Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:09:47 GMT]]>If you use X, you could use block-scroll-mod-x11 to prevent unintended zooming system-wide.

Browser only solution would be Disable Scroll Wheel Zoom Chrome extension. I suppose you could use Install Chrome Extensions extension to use the Chrome extension in Opera. You might need to modify the extension, if your browser uses other key than Ctrl for zooming, see here.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/228457https://forums.opera.com/post/228457Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:09:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to disable extremely irritating CTRL + wheel zooming on Sun, 29 Mar 2020 09:14:24 GMT]]>how about an about:config, like in FF.. This was extremely useful when configuring for specifics.. There are other reasons I don't use FF... This was one of their strong points.. Too bad Opera as long as it's been around hasn't integrated such a good idea in configuration into their own yet..

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/204424https://forums.opera.com/post/204424Sun, 29 Mar 2020 09:14:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to disable extremely irritating CTRL + wheel zooming on Wed, 25 Sep 2019 22:24:19 GMT]]>@kikonen It's not a bug. You can request a way to disable the shortcut in the proper forum.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/182802https://forums.opera.com/post/182802Wed, 25 Sep 2019 22:24:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to disable extremely irritating CTRL + wheel zooming on Wed, 25 Sep 2019 22:22:50 GMT]]>Rather irritating that this blatant bug is not getting fixed. Behaviour is really irritating. It certainly does not help that Opera's employees are trying to disregard problem as "system problem", while it's not.

Please, please, just add configuration option to allow turning this off.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/182748https://forums.opera.com/post/182748Wed, 25 Sep 2019 22:22:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to disable extremely irritating CTRL + wheel zooming on Sat, 09 Mar 2019 20:01:26 GMT]]>any updates on this?

other users also report here: https://forums.opera.com/topic/18940/how-to-turn-zooming-with-the-trackpad-off
and here: https://forums.opera.com/topic/13392/how-do-you-disable-scroll-wheel-zoom/2

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/165635https://forums.opera.com/post/165635Sat, 09 Mar 2019 20:01:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to disable extremely irritating CTRL + wheel zooming on Fri, 17 Aug 2018 06:37:45 GMT]]>@sgunhouse Well I did that but it still does that zooms on mouse gestures. In my case on double click. It's a real pain.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/152710https://forums.opera.com/post/152710Fri, 17 Aug 2018 06:37:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to disable extremely irritating CTRL + wheel zooming on Sun, 20 May 2018 04:56:22 GMT]]>Under Settings > Browser > Shortcuts, you might try disabling one or both of the "gesture" settings. Mind you, in old versions of Opera it wouldn't help, so no guarantee it will in current versions - but that's all I can suggest. (Properly, "mouse gestures" are right button drag actions, while "rocker gestures" involve quickly pressing one button then another, and hence neither actually covers the scroll+modifier key case; but that is the best I can suggest.)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/146779https://forums.opera.com/post/146779Sun, 20 May 2018 04:56:22 GMT