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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.


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/

and its always-active fork:

Android Text Reflow by richmoz 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-w...


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.


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 meβ„’.




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