Zoom level tool suggestion

[calv1n1te]

With the zoom level tool, you click the - button to zoom out and the + button to zoom in. I'd like to see the center section between - and +, which displays the current zoom level, made clickable so whether you are zoomed out or in you can click the zoom level and it will zoom to 100 percent, instead of having to click zoom in or out button repeatedly.

Thanks.

[Jon]

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[N4AOF]

Grrrrr.... I hate this forum software.

I just finished typing a detailed comment.  I clicked the "Post Your Comment" button and Mozilla asks me to sign in.  I sign in with my Mozilla account, and Mozilla brings me back here -- but has discarded my comment!

I had come to Mozilla to complain about Firefox browser doing exactly what @calv1n1te just asked for.

I understand the convenience of being able to zoom in or out in increments with the +/- buttons or Ctrl+/- but I absolutely hate the jump to 100% when you click on the displayed percentage.  Rather than automatically jumping to 100% it would be much more useful if the user were allowed to simply type in any number to select a zoom level rather than just the fixed increments provided by the +/- choices.  (This would be something like the font size selection in any modern word processor where there are fixed increments but I can type in any number I need, even if I want to choose a 10.6 point font.)

I ran into this problem today when I wanted to get a specific part of a web page onto the screen. The 50% zoom was too large, and 30% was ridiculously too small.  If we have to settle for fixed increments, those increments need to be smaller as the zoom level gets smaller -- not become a gigantic leap as the increments do now with the jump from 50% to barely half that size at 30% zoom. (40% would probably have worked for what I needed today, but of course that's not a choice that Mozilla Firefox allows).