Firefox 1.1 on Maemo lets you browse with your phone in a portrait orientation as well as landscape.
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The browser will switch orientations automatically as you reposition the phone, as you would expect. Some browser screens are the same, only taller; others change their layout slightly to better fit the screen on which they find themselves, such as the tools screens.
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If you'd like to lock the screen orientation - say you're lying down but want to read in portrait:
you can use the standard Maemo screen orientation lock key-combination to do so: Ctrl-Shift-O.
Posted by madhava at May 21, 2010 02:25 PM