Hi there I know, it's not strictly Linux related, but nonetheless it has been annoying the hell outta me for years. Being a keyboard person, I quite often linger a wee bit too long on the ctrl key after closing a window with ctrl+w and already used the scrollwheel/touchpad to scroll down the other window. Unfortunately, Firefox uses ctrl and scrolling to zoom the current page, leaving you with a page with massive or tiny font. The steps to turn off this feature: - type the following in the URL edit field (and accept the warning in case that should pop up): about:config - and set the the value of the following property to 0: mousewheel.withcontrolkey.action Source: http://duntuk.com/disable-scroll-wheel-zoom-firefox Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174