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Using <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/> will actually prevent your pages from zooming out and fitting the mobile screen, so try leaving it out.You should not leave out the viewport meta tag, partly because Google will not accept pages without that meta tag as mobile friendly, even if they are. (I found that out by accidentally leaving out the tag on a recently updated page, then using "Fetch as Google" - oops). The main reason not to omit that tag is because without it, the browser will choose a width and they don't always play well with your css/html design.
Before rendering the page, the browser needs to know how wide the layout viewport is. This is the viewport relative to which CSS declarations such as width: 20% are calculated.[quirksmode.org...]
Without any further instructions the browsers pick a width themselves. In six of the eight tested browsers this is 980px, in BlackBerry and IE10 it’s 1024px. There’s no right or wrong here; this is just the browser vendors making a choice.