Firefox for Android makes a hash of ABC iView

I tried to watch a video on Firefox for Android on my new Superpad 6 (Flytouch 6) running Android 4 last night. It insisted on loading its own iView app and then made a complete hash of presenting the video. Full screen gave a blank picture with sound. Upon pressing the back button I got a picture but when going back to select a different program the screen had zoomed in and would not un-zoom. I switched over to the browser that came installed on with the unit - which from the icon appears to be Quick ICS browser - and ABC iView worked perfectly without the need to load any sub-application that Firefox required.

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