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Comment by DavideNL | Hacker News Reader

For me it's the other way round, i've been trying to use Firefox but the "pinch to zoom" feature in Safari is so smooth, and so crappy in Firefox, that i always keep coming back to Safari... If you read a lot of text on a Macbook, being able to zoom quickly and efficiently becomes a high priority.

Things like this are much more important for me than energy-efficiency.

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> If you read a lot of text on a Macbook, being able to zoom quickly and efficiently becomes a high priority

I read lots of text on my Macbook and I have never purposely used this feature. On occasion I have accidentally engaged it, which is annoying.

I use the text reader built into the OS, due to my Dyslexia, so I guess I never noticed :) For me it's just highlight and press the key to have the test read to me, I have "Samantha" cranked all the way to the top speed. That said, Chrome also has very nice pinch to zoom nowadays.

You may want to get a checkup from an optometrist. No joke. I think almost everyone is affected by age-related degeneration of their vision at some point or another.

Well coincidentally i've been to an optometrist in a hospital about a year ago, my eyes are perfect (i don't have glasses.)

If i open https://news.ycombinator.com/news on my Macbook pro retina 15" i see news items 1 to 22 in a tiny font.. so i zoom to about 10 items which i find much easier to read (bigger text and less info), and using pinch to zoom you can do it very easily - in Safari.

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