Browser with text reflow like Opera

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herzzreh

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Does any other browser do text reflow like Opera does? Not having it and having to scroll horizontally kinda defeats the purpose in a mobile phone...
 

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The text reflow action is extremely useful. I had it on the Nexus AOSP browser I sideloaded onto my old Bionic and loved it. That browser doesn't work on the X and the AOSP browser in Play store is pretty good, but doesn't have the reflow capability.
 

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Chrome will reflow to a specified zoom level that you set in its settings and is probably the next best thing. Opera reflows text as you zoom in and out, but not as reliably as it should.

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herzzreh

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Does it? I tried both regular and the jet pack and all it does is zoom without wrapping text.

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Chrome will reflow to a specified zoom level that you set in its settings and is probably the next best thing. Opera reflows text as you zoom in and out, but not as reliably as it should.

I just checked and my zoom setting in Chrome is 125%. I went to a Yahoo site about the Chinese trade balance which has text across the whole screen. I double-tapped to zoom and the text got bigger, but did not reflow. I still had to scroll horizontally. If you go to a full text screen do you really get reflow on the text? It is certainly not working for me.

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Does it? I tried both regular and the jet pack and all it does is zoom without wrapping text.
I just tried with the Dolphin browser I installed from Play yesterday. Reflow works on two sites I tried it on.
 

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I just checked and my zoom setting in Chrome is 125%. I went to a Yahoo site about the Chinese trade balance which has text across the whole screen. I double-tapped to zoom and the text got bigger, but did not reflow. I still had to scroll horizontally. If you go to a full text screen do you really get reflow on the text? It is certainly not working for me...

I also find it does not work all the time.

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FSRBIKER

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Double tap to zoom reflow's the text on LegacyGT, are you trying to pinch zoom further and have it reflow?

BTW What are you driving, I have a 05 Outback XT so I visit LegacyGT often.

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herzzreh

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No luck for me. Tap or pinch just zooms, doesn't reflow.

I had a 06 Forester XT, Sandy took it. Now have 11 Legacy H6.

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FSRBIKER

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Just played with the settings, I didn't have Jetpack on so double tap works. Once I turn Jetpack on it doesn't work anymore.

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@rbiter

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Naked browser for the win. Best 3rd party browser.

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Naked browser for the win. Best 3rd party browser.

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I'm a fan of Naked Browser too but it no longer does text reflow since the KitKat update. I can work around it much of the time using the text zoom option but it's not the same. I still need reflow sometimes depending on the web site. Opera does a fair job but does not allow zooming on all sites. Not sure I'm willing to use Dolphin.
 
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@rbiter

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Huh? I'm on note3 so I guess I dont have that problem. That would drive me up the wall.

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    I'm a fan of Naked Browser too but it no longer does text reflow since the KitKat update. I can work around it much of the time using the text zoom option but it's not the same. I still need reflow sometimes depending on the web site. Opera does a fair job but does not allow zooming on all sites. Not sure I'm willing to use Dolphin.