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by vijucat 4644 days ago
> and they've been netscaped out of mobile.

Not sure what you mean. Just FYI : at least on Android phones, among FF, Chrome, Opera (and the default browser), Opera's text flow is the best by far. You can zoom in and read any article on any site, and it does just the right thing. There is honestly an element of fear when you use Firefox for the same thing: it's absolutely unpredictable what it will do when you zoom in. I can sympathize with the developers since the re-layout of a page, figuring out whether the user wants to zoom in on the text or the image, etc; may be quite difficult. Opera Mobile has seemingly perfected this over years and years.
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iSnow 4644 days ago
>There is honestly an element of fear when you use Firefox for the same thing

I don't know what you mean. No Android browser matches mobile Safari for the slickness of zooming into pages, but FF mobile just works fine.

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Dylan16807 4644 days ago
Does your mobile firefox give different sizes to every comment on HN because it thinks longer sentences need bigger fonts? Mine does.
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vijucat 4643 days ago
Yes, this is just one example. To OP, if he has bothered to check this deep into replies, does Safari do text reflow upon zooming in? Should I attach screenshots to explain?
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