the magnifying glass seems to perform differently depending on if you have that "auto layout" setting on or off.
with it off, you can hold the zoom button down and itll just keep zooming in and when you let it go, you'll be right where you wanna be
but with it on, you can zoom in the same way, but when you let go, android auto-laysout the page, and often you are NOT where you thought you were gonna be >
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