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by tomrod 1775 days ago
It also broke font sizing/rendering on sites like reddit.

I loved Firefox mobile and this did me dirty. One of the big draws was adblock, and on top of needing text and extensions they changed the UI to be antiproductive.

Their playstore ratings took a massive nose dive after that release. Shame. They are the only real browser competition to Chrome.
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afterburner 1775 days ago
Does the font scaler in Firefox help? I actually switched to Firefox mobile several months ago because that finally resolved my issues with browsing i.reddit.com on Firefox. Chrome would just get the font scaling right, Firefox wouldn't before the major engine change.

I am annoyed that Firefox mobile tabs seem to have to refresh every single time I "tab out". I'm stubbornly sticking to it because of addons though (Dark Reader and uBlock).

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iggldiggl 1774 days ago
The font scaling was available in the previous Firefox on Android (i.e. ≤ 68), too, but it had been disabled by default for a long time because while it does make text more readable on pages written without mobile phones in mind, it can also cause some layout breakage on some pages, and there was a little tug-of-war between people preferring the former even at the cost of some possible layout breakage, and those wanting to avoid the latter even at the cost of unreadable text. If you knew about it, it could still be re-enabled through the regular settings, though.

After having fixed a few bugs in that regard, I pushed for giving re-enabling it by default another try with the rewritten browser, and so far that decision luckily (from my point of view) seems to have stuck.

Additionally, it has recently turned out that for pages specifying an explicit desktop-sized viewport (i.e something like meta name="viewport" content="width=1024", as opposed to either using nothing at all, which gives the standard desktop-size viewport of 980 px, or "width=device-width", meaning it's a mobile-friendly responsive layout), there was a long-standing bug meaning that the font scaling for desktop-style pages was erroneously being deactivated on xxhdpi-phones.

This latter bug affects the desktop versions of both Reddit and Slashdot for example, as both of those are using an explicitly sized viewport. It has now been fixed in Firefox 93 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1685756)

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