Over in this unrelated thread, it was announced that "Fit Width to View will not be present in Fremantle.".

It is my opinion that unless this feature of the stock browser is replaced by some similar functionality (e.g., tear has default word-wrapping for text heavy pages), then this is a lamentable development.

Obviously I understand why people wouldn't want to have FWTV as the default option, but for those of us who use our tablet largely to read blogs posts and news (not a small contingent, I wouldn't think), the lack of FWTV would seem to force one to choose between horizontal scrolling one's life away or else keeping font so small that reading text strains one's eyes. This is the choice that those with iTouches and iPhones must make. It's great that I don't have to make this choice with my n8x0.

Yes, I can always wait for Tear to be ported to Maemo 5. But I'm sure that there are going to be things that I like about the new browser (there are things I like about microb). So I'll just register my hope that the fremantle development team will reconsider. For the record, I simply want to be able to avoid horizontal scrolling when I make font big enough to read comfortably. If there is some way other than FWTV to do that on the new browser, then great.

(Also, while I'm at it, I'll note that many of us choose to modify the key bindings on microb so that the d-pad scrolls page-by-page instead of line-by-line. I'm fine with doing this via xterm/cli, but a toggle box in a settings panel would be great as well!)