817262 - Add an option to disable overview zoom level

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 666600

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Frederik Niedernolte]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121128204232

Steps to reproduce:

Try to find an option to disable the default zoom level overview


Actual results:

Nothing found


Expected results:

There should be an option to disable the overview mode and zoom / scale / center the content properly for mobile phones.
To see a full desktop site which is not mobile optimised with a 4.x inch screen isn't useful and text in forums like XDA looks strange (sometimes big, sometimes small).
Please add an option like the stock browser with a custom zoom level.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Already present. Menu button/3 dot button -> settings -> text size -> press the small 'A' till the text size no longer changes -> press set.

Comment 2

[Frederik Niedernolte]

Attachment: Firefox1

Comment 3

[Frederik Niedernolte]

Attachment: Firefox2

Comment 4

[Frederik Niedernolte]

Attachment: Stock1

Comment 5

[Frederik Niedernolte]

Attachment: Stock2

Comment 6

[Frederik Niedernolte]

I think you misunderstood me. 
Look at the screenshot from my phone and compare Firefox with stock browser. 
I don't talk about the zoom level but about overview mode on/off. 
Do you understand what the difference is? 
Currently it is not possible with Firefox for Android which is okay for Tablets but not handy and ugly for phones.

Comment 7

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

This might happen because of the font inflation. Set the text size to tiny and recheck those pages. It should be displayed the same as for the stock browser

Comment 8

[Frederik Niedernolte]

Attachment: FirefoxTiny

Comment 9

[Frederik Niedernolte]

Okay, "tiny" solves a part of the problem (even if the option doesn't sound like that) but as you can see on the screenshot the page is still in "overview" mode. 
In the stock browser you can read everything without zooming and panning. 
In Firefox the page is rendered too wide and you have to scroll vertically AND horizontally. The text should be always as wide as the screen if there would be an option for that like in the stock browser.

Comment 10

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

Please select PNG image when you add a png as attachment. I cannot see any of the attached images :( it seems that were attached as plain text

Comment 11

[Frederik Niedernolte]

Sorry, should be fixed now. 
Compare especially the last two screnshots

Comment 12

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

Indeed, there is a difference between them. However, the webpage displayed with the Tiny text setting looks almost like it does on desktop.

Comment 13

[Frederik Niedernolte]

That is true and I said already that it is okay for Tablets but not for Smartphones. 
If there would be an option like in the stock browser to disable overview mode (including text reflow) everyone could be happy.

Comment 15

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

Whoops, wrong bug number.