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Offtopic, but if anybody from RedHat and especially Mozilla read this, go to that page with an Android phone, possibly with a small screen:

To RedHat: do something for that menu at the left. It stays in the way when scrolling and zooming. The X to close it is not immediately visible on a small screen. Expected behavior: the menu scrolls away with the page and doesn't stay fixed in the way of the reader.

To Mozilla: open the page with Opera and copy what you see there. Tldr: autofit the text in the screen width. Maybe Chrome does the same. Btw, reader mode doesn't kick in.



Worse, I browse without javascript and their page has no text.

It's utterly terribly designed to be an open source information page.


The text is there, just invisible. Disable CSS and it'll show up.


Even as paying customer I wouldn't want to put up with that shit.


You mean ESPECIALLY as a paying customer! You paid for the right to bitch, and you should.


As I recall, the whole idea of text reflow in Firefox for Android has been abandoned because nobody was willing to fix broken code for a feature deemed no longer important for the modern web. (I'm sure following Google's decision to remove it from their browsers since KitKat also played a part, knowing modern Mozilla and their attitude.)

A real shame, especially for those coming from Presto-based Opera Mobile, which used to do reflow seamlessly and in a better layout than modern Blink-based Opera.

Fortunately, Firefox supports addons and you'll find at least a couple ones claiming to do the trick: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/fit-text-to-w... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/text-reflow/


Re: Mozilla, they are aware, and there are a couple of about:config flags to enable text reflow on page load and on tap-to-zoom, but they're disabled by default "due to a number of reasons (mainly performance)".


I looked for them but maybe they don't have obvious names. I found that I set browser.ui.zoom.force-user-scalable to true, it defaults to false.

Do you remember their names? Thanks.


One is browser.zoom.reflowOnZoom, can't find the other, sorry.


That doesn't exist in my Firefox on Android (54.0.1)


> Maybe Chrome does the same.

Nope




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