Investigate automatic font sizing (Android)
I thought we had an issue about this - I guess not - so creating one.
my story: I just bought a new phone (massive step up from my 5 year old: TZP cold session went from 2.5 seconds to 250ms), so these are definitely default settings (checked in TB) and was surprised websites in FF were "larger" (i.e I saw less even though I had better resolution). The reason was on my old phone I had changed the settings
So two things: in Settings > Accessibility
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Automatic font sizing: font size will match your Android settings: default enabled -
Font Size(if automatic font sizing is disabled): default 100%
First, from a FPing perspective, we shouldn't utilize any system settings = should disable Automatic font sizing. This then gives us the issue of Font Size which we could add a reset to default button (100%) and/or add a FPing note/info
However, this is all very much a usability/accessibility issue - so we'd need to tread carefully. gecko-view already lacks massive amounts of FP-parity with desktop, so at this stage, I doubt it matters much.
usability: for the record, when I flipped from automatic to 100% (in FF) it varies per website
- e.g. old.reddit lists e.g. r/firefox/new the left hand column went from useless massive text to matching the right hand colum
- others the font changed slightly (and I could see more)
IDK what to do here - it's a F mess (FPing wise)
There is also font inflation as a separate android specific issue. I had a bugzilla comment or two with emilio about it years ago - where short text segments would enlarge - pretty sure this is a pref, but again it's there for a reason on by default in FF, probably readability