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Reader View not working on many sites on iOS

Quite a few news websites seem to be circumventing Firefox’s reader view feature. This includes my favorite tech website arstechnica.com which insists on using text that … (read more)

Quite a few news websites seem to be circumventing Firefox’s reader view feature. This includes my favorite tech website arstechnica.com which insists on using text that is too small to read. Now reader view can only be activated on this website on desktop. This is now the case with a bunch of websites recently. I hope you guys are working on this. Thanks again!

Asked by JustinRez 1 year ago

Last reply by JustinRez 1 year ago

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Longstanding Scrolling BUG in FF for iOS Reader View

When I switch to Reader view in FF for iOS (text-only view), I can sometimes scroll smoothly to the bottom of an article, and sometimes Reader view suddenly starts yankin… (read more)

When I switch to Reader view in FF for iOS (text-only view), I can sometimes scroll smoothly to the bottom of an article, and sometimes Reader view suddenly starts yanking me down to the bottom of the web page when I attempt to scroll down. What do I mean by 'yanking'? I scroll down a screen's worth of text, read the next screen, and scroll again, read again, and at seemingly random moments, the view scrolls by at rapid speed to the bottom of the page. I can then try to scroll up--and it will let me scroll rapidly, pulling up so quick that the scrolling continues a moment to catch up after I remove my finger from the screen--but as soon as I try to fine-tune by touching the screen and holding it as I move it up and down a little at a time, YANK! and I'm at the bottom of the screen again. Sometimes I can leave reader view, reload the web page without leaving the page, reset to reader view, and be successful at scrolling the entire article. Other times I have to close the web page and open a new window to start over.

This happens on more than one website, and has been a problem through multiple iOS iterations (at least since iOS 14) and FF updates (I keep my FF on auto-update). Currently on iOS 17.0.3 iPhone 12 mini with FF 118.2 (34971).

Asked by Foxfree99 6 months ago

Last reply by Foxfree99 5 months ago