Just my 2¢ worth, but why not a set of scroll arrows in the toolbar? Or simply a magnifying glass with a ‘+’ to the left and a ‘-’ t the right? The tool tip could simply say: “enlarge complete page” “Reduce complete page”.

Personally, I can’t wait for the finished version of 3. It ran so smooth in 10.4.9 Tiger I could have sworn I was using a finished product. Kudos, all!

It is only very rarely that I want to enlarge just a portion of the screen.

I enlarge the entire screen in Opera on sites that have the blank space on both sides, this makes the content as large as can be on my screen, greatly improving the readability of the text, which is what I want enlarged. Unlike just increasing the text size, the page looks normal and properly proportioned, just bigger, meaning I get the benefit of spending as much money as I can afford on “big” monitors.

I use this nicely centered page zoom a lot, many hours a day, every day, on many different web sites. I don’t have to scroll horizonatlly because of the way Opera does the zoom.

There are tons of sites that have the “let’s only use 1/2 to 2/3 of the width of the screen” appearance on a 1024 by 768 screen. Practically everyone gets presbyopia. Thus there’s a big potential userbase for properly centered page zoom. Only people who’ve used Opera’s would know how nice it is.

I’ve tried image zoom extensions, they are of very little use to me.

But I’d like to know which use case is more common: image zooming or actual page zooming.

The folks that said the zoom increments were too big were quite right!

The zooming starts from the left instead of the center, meaning that for the many pages that have blank areas on both sides at normal zoom, when you magnify till the content would fill the screen if was centered, instead the blank area at the left is still at the left, only magnified. I believe this is how IE7s page zoom works. This is not good. I hope someone gets across the idea to the developers that the default centered for the zoom display should be to keep the center of the normal display in the center and let the sides be cut off.

Center the zoomed page, that’s how Opera does it, pretty much, and it’s made me an Opera user for years. As the eyes get worse the competive advantage of the browser with the best page zoom gets greater and greater.

How do make it zoom?

Control + is not doing a full page zoom like Opera does. I don’t see any instructions around.

Unfortunately, very buggy still. Try e.g. http://www.orf.at – zooming fails miserably there. Same with derstandard.at and many other sites. Also scroll bar dragging does not work at all.

And the difference between zoom levels is ridiculously high .. thats probably the extension’s fault. Normal increases to much too huge and decreases to so tiny it cant be read.

Looks like there is quite a long way to go still.

BTW, whatever became of the “places” feature?

C’est une sorte de « en vrac ».
Opera Desktop Team, Screen reader support 27 juil. 2007, Julien Picalausa
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However when finally added to the trunk code the link was removed leaving it inaccessible. So I guess it’s not the plan to tie both zooming options, at least right now.

I would expect some additional modifier like Shift + Ctrl + MouseWheel/-/= to perform full page zoom and leave text zoom alone. We’ll see.