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The article this discussion has a lot of the points that make it unpleasant to me. Everything is slow. I don't dare touch the page until it's fully loaded (and

by liw 10y ago

The article this discussion has a lot of the points that make it unpleasant to me. Everything is slow. I don't dare touch the page until it's fully loaded (and I don't always know that has from the browser's progress bar) and stops jumping around. Pages are designed for bigger screens (they don't fit on my phone's screen in a useful way) or better eyes (fonts are really tiny). Also, the phone is just a bad device for doing anything complicated, such as following a link (hard to hit tiny links with thick fingers) or looking up information from multiple sources ("tab" handling is abysmal, at least with Chrome on Android). Etc.

anc84 10y ago
Give a system-wide ad-blocker (AdAway) and Opera Mobile a try. You can zoom in and it will reflow the text to make it nicely readable. I wish I could switch to Firefox but the lack of reflow is an incredibly weird anti-feature.
- noisem4ker 10y ago
  I was very sensitive about this problem, and incredibly angered when text reflow was gradually dropped thanks to Google, and when of course Mozilla happily followed suit. But I must admit that on the web of today it is rarely an issue. If you want text reflow on touch working on Firefox for Android, you've got this: Text Reflow by david2097152 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/text-reflow/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/text-reflow/ and its always-active fork: Android Text Reflow by richmoz https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/text-reflow/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/text-reflow/ This could also come in handy: Fit Text To Width by Jarrad https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/fit-text-to-width/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/fit-text-to-w...
  - anc84 10y ago
    Oh, I too thought those would be workarounds but they are not. The first two say: "This means it will only reflow ONE THING AT A TIME. If the page has 50 paragraphs, you will have to tap once on all 50 to reflow the whole thing." The third one simply does nothing for me.
    - noisem4ker 10y ago
      Just tap on the next paragraph when scrolling. Scroll, tap, repeat. Your thumb will do that automatically while you're still reading the paragraph above. EDIT: I just tried the third one by zooming in on a few desktop sites and I'm impressed. Make sure text size is set to "tiny" in the accessibility settings. It definitely works for me™.
dagwaging 10y ago
> ("tab" handling is abysmal, at least with Chrome on Android) this can be fixed by going to the settings via the chrome menu and turning 'merge tabs and apps' off, if that's the behavior you're referring to

by liw 10y ago

anc84 10y ago

Give a system-wide ad-blocker (AdAway) and Opera Mobile a try. You can zoom in and it will reflow the text to make it nicely readable. I wish I could switch to Firefox but the lack of reflow is an incredibly weird anti-feature.

noisem4ker 10y ago
I was very sensitive about this problem, and incredibly angered when text reflow was gradually dropped thanks to Google, and when of course Mozilla happily followed suit. But I must admit that on the web of today it is rarely an issue. If you want text reflow on touch working on Firefox for Android, you've got this: Text Reflow by david2097152 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/text-reflow/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/text-reflow/ and its always-active fork: Android Text Reflow by richmoz https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/text-reflow/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/text-reflow/ This could also come in handy: Fit Text To Width by Jarrad https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/fit-text-to-width/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/fit-text-to-w...
- anc84 10y ago
  Oh, I too thought those would be workarounds but they are not. The first two say: "This means it will only reflow ONE THING AT A TIME. If the page has 50 paragraphs, you will have to tap once on all 50 to reflow the whole thing." The third one simply does nothing for me.
  - noisem4ker 10y ago
    Just tap on the next paragraph when scrolling. Scroll, tap, repeat. Your thumb will do that automatically while you're still reading the paragraph above. EDIT: I just tried the third one by zooming in on a few desktop sites and I'm impressed. Make sure text size is set to "tiny" in the accessibility settings. It definitely works for me™.

dagwaging 10y ago

> ("tab" handling is abysmal, at least with Chrome on Android) this can be fixed by going to the settings via the chrome menu and turning 'merge tabs and apps' off, if that's the behavior you're referring to