2012 MacBook Pro Trackpad Help!

[greenj]

SAFARI BASED FREEZE UP driving me crazy.

How this is happening I cannot figure out!

With my right hand, I just barely graze my finger over the trackpad (not even sure what motion I am using) while at the same time, with my left hand I am barry touching SOME KEY - do NOT know which one.

Suddenly the page gets bigger for a second, the n blurry, then the whole page - whatever I am doing - usually on safari FREEZES. I cannot type anymore, and none of the clickable boxes work.

This usually means I have to restart Safari and if I am typing on a page, i LOSE ALL The text!

Does anyone know what the ^%$# is happening to cause this?

This 2012 macbook pro trackpad is just WAY too sensitive.

 

[sjinsjca]

You are probably accidentally zooming the page ever so slightly.

Next time it happens, try "pinching" the page so it bounces back to its original size. I'd bet it un-freezes.

This happens to me, too, but I've gradually learned to pinch unresponsive pages, so it doesn't bother me as much as it used to. You could, in a pinch (ha ha), disable this gesture in System Preferences.

Hope this helps.

 

[KylePowers]

Woah 2012 MBP!

How much RAM do you have? Perhaps Safari needs more resources

 

[sjinsjca]

Woah 2012 MBP!

How much RAM do you have? Perhaps Safari needs more resources

Really doubt that. The symptoms match mine exactly-- Safari window inadvertently zoomed into an odd size, forms unresponsive.

Seriously: Pinch and release, so the page bounces back into its default size. I'd bet real money this will fix the problem.

 

[arcite]

Go into SYSTEM PREFERENCES. > TRACKPAD. > under two finger scrolling, turn offscreen zoom.


Easy.

 

[sjinsjca]

Go into SYSTEM PREFERENCES. > TRACKPAD. > under two finger scrolling, turn offscreen zoom.


Easy.

Yeah, that turns it off. But there are times when it's useful.

 

[greenj]

Go into SYSTEM PREFERENCES. > TRACKPAD. > under two finger scrolling, turn offscreen zoom.


Easy.

Thank you!! I think that worked. You saved me hours and hours of headaches! Major Good Karma pts for you!

 

[heisenberg123]

holy smolly you got a 2012 already??

like others said its that silly zoom feature you accidently hiting, just usint 2 fingers to pinch the screen and it will spring back to normal

 

[sjinsjca]

Safari behavior seems to have been fixed

The behavior OP complained about, where an inadvertent zooming of a webpage would render it unresponsive to clicks, appears to have been ironed-out in some recent update. I noticed yesterday that Safari remains responsive even if the page is zoomed arbitrarily. I tried zooming to various degrees and could not reproduce the former behavior.