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Very sad news. Because of the untrustworthiness of the buyers I'll have to find another browser for my phone. Any suggestions?

I started googling around and found an addon for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/text-reflow/r... but it's looks imperfect.

Apparently text reflow won't make its way into Firefox https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710298

It seems that maybe Lightning does it. I'll try it out. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=acr.browser.ba...

Edit: added link to Lightning

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I have used Dolphin for years and ditched Opera a long time ago. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.mgeek.Tun...

I went the other way for two reasons:

1) Dolphin uses the stock browser's rendering engine, which is not updated as often as an external one. For older devices is not updated at all. I remember two or three updates in an year on my tablet, which went from 4.4.2 to 5.0.2. Opera is updated in sync with Chromium/Chrome.

2) Opera has text reflow and that made me ditch Dolphin instantaneously. I checked it again now and Dolphin still doesn't have text reflow.

Dolphin does have text reflow. There is an option that says 'Auto-fit pages' in advanced settings, which is the same thing as text reflow. That option is the only reason I'm using Dolphin as my mobile browser. I used to use Opera before, but after they switched to Blink, an annoying bug that reloads a tab when it is selected, became a deal breaker for me.

Doplhin's text reflow works on some sites but doesn't work in HN. If I zoom a page of comments I have to scroll right and left, which defeats the purpose of zooming. Do you experience the same behavior?

It doesn't work for me either. The fault lies with HN. I think the reason text reflow doesn't work on HN is that HN styles its content using old-fashioned HTML tables instead of DIVs.

Yes, it's the table layout but Opera manages to reflow it so I'd say that HN is a difficult customer but Dolphin is not doing a good job at managing it.

Not quite. Dolphin do provide Jetpack that is a updated (ish, their last release was a year ago) webkit engine.

There have been a number of vulnerabilities in Webkit since that last update. https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?query=Webk...

Maybe they don't apply to Jetpack. Do you know if they have a bug tracker?

none off hand.

> It seems that maybe Lightning does it. I'll try it out.

I hate to say it but I've rarely seen text wrapping worked in Lightning, and even when it worked it's nowhere near as good as Opera does it.

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