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Firefox profiles are a mobile web developer's friend

Posted by ronan 2 years 34 weeks ago
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You can save a lot of time on mobile testing if you create a Firefox profile that mimics a phone.

  • Change the default font to something that looks like a phone font (try Tahoma)
  • Change the default font size to something that gives approximately the same number of words per line as a mid-range phone
  • Change the browser window width to (say) 240px
  • Change the default home page to your list of mobile links (see tip #1)

If you do all of this you get a really crude but effective approximation of what an average phone user will see.