Expand/Pinch gesture in Finder

Hi,
since I updated to Mountain Lion, the expand/pinch gesture in Finder (to resize the icons) doesn't work anymore. The only way are the preferences menue or the slider in the status bar. I searched the web, but it seams that nobody has this problem. Is there anybode else? Do you have a hind for me, how I can restore the behavior from Lion?
Regards

I believe that this is normal, although in my eyes it's not a problem. The old behavior in Lion irritated the heck out of me, as I would frequently trigger a pinch gesture accidentally. I'm a bit anal about my desktop, and resizing the icons would screw up the entire arrangement, so I'd have to go back into the desktop's view options and set the icons back to 64x64 again.
So I definitely noticed that the pinch behavior in the Finder went away, but I was glad about that rather than upset. If there's a way to get the old behavior back, I'm unaware of it, but I have doubts that there is.

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Thank you for your response Rodney. The issue isn't with the browser though. The pinch-zoom works perfectly in Safari. The issue is with Finder. When I'm sorting/organizing files in Finder, I the pinch-zoom functionality doesn't work, so I'm limited to the 4 viewing styles buttons that are available. I can't scale my views which is really inconvenient. Finder used to have this functionality in OS Snow Leopard, so I really hope this function is restored in OS Lion.
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What happened to the multi-touch gestures in Finder?

I've updated to Lion last week. Overall, I think what Apple did was great to the overall experience. However, my only gripes are in Finder. What happened to the multi-touch gestures? The only thing that I can do is flip through files in cover view using two finger swipes.
What happened to the pinch to zoom in and out? I've seen other posts about this so I'll stop here. Apple please bring this function back. I'm tired of moving my mouse to the drag handle.
Secondly, I was using three finger swipes to navigate to the previous and next folder in Finder. Since two finger is used to flip through cover view, I see why they couldn't extend the back/forward function to two finger swipes as they did in Safari and I know that three finger swipe is used to change desktops. I wish that Apple was more creative to leave this function in somehow.
Is there a way to bring these functions back to Finder? These are the functions that I used all the time.

That doesn't explain why they would remove the pinch to zoom in and out. That is not be used by anything else in finder. If I'm going through pictures, I would like to zoom in on the images for cover view.
As far as the three figure swipes to go back and forth in finder, I understand why that has been removed. However, Apple could have implemented the two finger swipe just like in Safari which is sensitive to the acceleration of the swipes. If you swipe with two fingers somewhat fast, you can go back and forth between previous and next page. If you swipe with two fingers slowly, you can pan left and right on the same page.
They could have done something to retain the functionality versus taking out the functionality all together. As of now, these functionalities do not exist. I'm hoping that something is going to change and we'll have to see what the future brings.

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