(PENDING) Strange formatting in Firefox

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Since yesterday morning I'm getting a strange hybrid of desktop view and mobile view in Firefox on Android. I tried Chrome and it still gives the normal mobile view. In Firefox this is pretty unusable because there seems to be no way to open a thread other than from the beginning.



Firefox 67.0.3 on a Mate 20 Pro. I've tried deleting the cache and recycling the browser, it still starts with that formatting. Refreshing the page doesn't help either.

I've seen an older threead describing pretty much the same thing, but that's closed. It appears to have come back.

[karma mechanic]

Still wrong for me. I've forced stop on Firefox, cleared the cache and restarted it, but it still looks like in my first post. I've also rebooted and lit a candle for the Internet Gods.

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tirolo_ said:

Are you guys seeing the issue with the icons on the bottom bar (mobile) or the issue people are reporting on the other thread about the back button?

My issue is that the mobile view still looks like the screenshot in the first post. Until a day or two ago it looked normal in both Firefox and Chrome.

It is like that on entry, it isn't associated with the back button. When I tried Chrome there was a period yesterday where the icons across the bottom were just rectangles with an 'X' in them, but that's fixed now, and it also appears to be fixed in Firefox:


Note the icons now show correctly compared to the screenshot in the first post. The rest of it is still unusable though.

Apart from not being associated with the back button it does look just the same as what people were reporting over there.

• Edit* it seems there are two threads about the back button. The one I mean is https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... where it shows a badly-rendered version of the desktop site on mobile.

Edited by karma mechanic on Wednesday 26th June 08:44

Edited by karma mechanic on Wednesday 26th June 08:48

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Mozilla/5.0 (Android 9; Mobile; rv:67.0) Gecko/67.0 Firefox/67.0

Android 9 on a Huawei Mate 20 Pro


On Chrome where it works ok it is:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; LYA-L09) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.101 Mobile Safari/537.36

Edited by karma mechanic on Wednesday 26th June 15:30

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Yes, still exactly like my original post.

I have been using desktop mode, but that forces it for all sites and requires lots of zooming and/or squinting.