{"id":19115,"date":"2013-02-23T15:23:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T23:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wapreview.com\/?p=19115"},"modified":"2013-02-23T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T23:23:29","slug":"firefox-mobile-19-gets-pinch-to-reflow-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/19115\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Mobile 19 Gets Pinch to Reflow Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/19115\/ff19xdadefault-zoom\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19122\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19122 imgBorder\" alt=\"Firefox 19 - XDA Default Zoom\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/FF19XDADefault-Zoom-170x302.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/19115\/ff19xdazoomedin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19121\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19121 imgBorder\" alt=\"Firefox 19 - XDA Zoomed In\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/FF19XDAZoomedIn-170x302.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/19115\/ff19xdazoomedwayin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19120\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19120 imgBorder\" alt=\"Firefox 19 - XDA Zoomed Way In\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/FF19XDAZoomedWayIn-170x302.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla released Firefox 19 this week for Windows, OSx, Linux and Android. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/mobile\/19.0\/releasenotes\/\">release notes<\/a> list the new features in the Android release as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for more HTML5 and CSS3 features<\/li>\n<li>Themes support<\/li>\n<li>Support for Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese localizations<\/li>\n<li>Lower Minimum hardware requirements (600MHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, HVGA) to support more devices<\/li>\n<li>Bug fixes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While I was poking\u00a0around\u00a0in the menus I noticed an option in the settings menu that \u00a0I don&#8217;t\u00a0remember\u00a0seeing before, &#8220;<em>Pinch to reflow text<\/em>&#8220;. It&#8217;s disabled by default, When you turn it on, text reflows to fit the window as you zoom in and out.<\/p>\n<p>Reflow has always been a feature of the stock Android Browser, Opera Mobile and most other Android browsers, but not Firefox Mobile. It&#8217;s a real eyesaver on some some desktop sites that are almost unreadable because of a combination of wide text columns and small font sizes. The screen shots above show an example on XDA-Developers. The left image shows how the site looks when you double tap to initially fit the page&#8217;s text to the window. The font size is so small that I found it a hard to read. No problem, just zoom in a bit and Firefox reflows the text so it still fits the window and horizontal scrolling isn&#8217;t needed.<\/p>\n<p>I did notice a couple of somewhat annoying issues with Firefox&#8217;s reflow. For one, the browser doesn&#8217;t maintain the current scroll position as you zoom in. If you are at the bottom of a long page and zoom in the browser will jump back to the middle of the page and you will have to scroll back down to find your place. The second issue is that zooming on one tab tends to effect the zoom levels on other tabs. Neither if <em>Pinch to reflow text<\/em> is turned off. Hopefully these\u00a0problems\u00a0will be fixed in a future\u00a0release, text reflow on zoom is a really\u00a0useful\u00a0feature when browsing on small screens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla released Firefox 19 this week for Windows, OSx, Linux and Android. \u00a0The release notes list the new features in the Android release as: Support for more HTML5 and CSS3 features Themes support Support for Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese localizations Lower Minimum hardware requirements (600MHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, HVGA) to support more devices Bug fixes While I was poking\u00a0around\u00a0in the menus I noticed an option in the settings menu that \u00a0I don&#8217;t\u00a0remember\u00a0seeing before, &#8220;Pinch to reflow text&#8220;. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/19115\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[1436,1011],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19115"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19129,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19115\/revisions\/19129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}