956720 - Some websites are loaded zoomed in

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Flaviu Cos]

Environment: 
Device: Google Nexus 7 (Android 4.4);
Build: Nightly 29.0a1 (2014-01-06);

Steps to reproduce:
1. Visit any website (e.g: www.imdb.com; www.gsmarena.com; m.yahoo.com; ebay.com);
2. Check if the website is completely zoomed out.

Expected result:
The website is not zoomed in. 

Actual result:
The website is zoomed in.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Attachment: screenshot.png

Each indicated site is displayed fit to form for me.

Please provide steps to reproduce and make sure you do not have any possible add-ons as candidates interfering.

Comment 2

[Flaviu Cos]

Attachment: device-2014-01-06-172001.png

Reproduced with Google Nexus 7 (Android 4.4);
Also reproducible with Asus Transformer Tab (Android 4.0.3);
Please check the attached screen shots.

Comment 3

[Flaviu Cos]

Attachment: device-2014-01-06-172128.png

Comment 4

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

I see this on my Nexus 7 on all-channels. This seems like a long-standing issue with likely another bug open for this.

Nexus 7 (2013, Android 4.4.2)

Kats, do you know of this issue longstanding? Here's a video: http://people.mozilla.org/~atrain/misc/956720.mp4

Comment 5

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

* In the video, I need to do a zoom out to reveal the entirety of the page. If you notice in the top right, the 'Help' menu on IMDB is initially partially off-screen but is revealed after the zoom.

Comment 6

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

I'm not aware of any bug open for this issue. The closest is bug 935615 but that is probably not even the same thing.

Comment 7

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Matt - The screenshots (#2 and #3) show the pages are slightly larger than the viewport. Didn't we intend it to work this way?

Comment 8

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Yes, if I remember right, in general we initially render "desktop" pages the same way they appear in a 980px-wide desktop Firefox window.  The IMDB page is 1008px wide, so it is horizontally scrollable in both Fennec, just as it is in a 980px desktop Firefox window.

We could (and I think did at some point?) always set the initial scale to the minimum possible value, but this provides a somewhat worse experience in certain cases (e.g. wide, horizontally-scrolling pages, which get extremely zoomed out).  Or we could have some logic to zoom out to the page width but only up to a certain threshold; for very wide pages we could still fall back to the current behavior of zooming out to the viewport width.

I think we've actually gone back and forth on this one or more times, but I couldn't find the relevant bugs except for bug 475997 (which never landed).

Comment 9

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Matt's recollection matches mine. Unless we intend to change (again) our behavior, the app is working as designed.