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On my iPad in Safari and Pixel Android phone in Firefox, one-finger double tap on text does the fit to viewport.

On my Ubuntu laptop in Chrome, I couldn’t find a way to make it work - even tapping the touchscreen didn’t work. But I’m not using the stock Ubuntu GUI, so it could be that (LXqt+XMonad).





>Pixel Android phone in Firefox, one-finger double tap on text does the fit to viewport.

I'm very confused, can you clarify what makes this different from the gesture that highlights text?

Edit: it appears that "request desktop site" makes it fit the viewport, whereas using the mobile view it's I guess already fitting the viewport so it highlights the text. The strange thing is in the desktop view, if I pinch zoom after fitting the viewport and do it again, it zooms out, whereas the mobile view still highlights the text. Which kinda makes sense, since mobile view it's fairly likely that you zoomed in to highlight the text more accurately, though it's weird that it's so inconsistent.


On both my iPad and Android, to highlight text I press and hold. I can't find a way to make double-tap do that.

Are you using Chrome or Firefox, on Android?



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