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Firefox display no longer rotates when phone is rotated

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RobStow
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Until recently, when I rotated my phone 90 degrees to view websites in landscape mode, FireFox would rotate automatically. It no longer does that and there is nothing in the very limited menu system to manually tell it to rotate.

In portrait mode everything is so tiny that FF is useless so I've had to go back to Chrome.

There is nothing like the desktop version's Help|About to find out what version of FF I have but I think it is the latest version as of this date.

Android version = 5.1

Until recently, when I rotated my phone 90 degrees to view websites in landscape mode, FireFox would rotate automatically. It no longer does that and there is nothing in the very limited menu system to manually tell it to rotate. In portrait mode everything is so tiny that FF is useless so I've had to go back to Chrome. There is nothing like the desktop version's Help|About to find out what version of FF I have but I think it is the latest version as of this date. Android version = 5.1

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Roland Tanglao
Roland Tanglao
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Hi Robstow:

Which Android phone, which version of Firefox for Android (37?) and which websites? 1 or two examples would be helpful!

Cheers! ...Roland

RobStow
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Android 5.1 on a Nexus 5. Latest version of FF.

The problem is not web site dependent: it is the entire app that is not rotating. The display is locked in portrait mode with FF but rotates when I use Chrome instead. Other apps that just Chrome also rotate appropriately - it is only FF that has stopped.

I was hoping to try going back to an earlier version of FF and see if that helps, but I can't find one.

guigs
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The websites would help the developers investigate and create a fix for this issue, however there is an archive of older versions, however it is less secure. Would you mind providing 2 -3 websites examples?

RobStow
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I said in a reply to an earlier post by Roland: "The problem is not web site dependent".

In other words, FF was locked in portrait mode PERIOD. I don't browse too much with the tiny 4" screen on my phone - I check sports scores on ESPN and TSN, and news on Washington Post and CBC and not much else. None of those worked with FF. And it wasn't just the web pages that wouldn't rotate - the FF interface was locked into portrait mode too.

I got frustrated with this to the point that I've been using Chrome for quite a while now.