Merged 3 posts from Swipe back gesture/animation similar to Chrome.
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Implement Chrome/Firefox animation for page back
Vlad changed the title to Implement Chrome/Firefox gesture for page back .
That will not resolve the main concern that is the annoyance of the transition animation itself. This transition makes sense on a phone where you actually swipe with the finger on the screen and the transition follows the finger, but not on a desktop browser. The canvas is just too huge.
frin This is a native WebKit feature and is very difficult to change. Also a large number of Mac users love this so even if we could change it we would need to have an option for it in settings which would make it awkward as it is such a nichce request. Sorry but it feels unlikely to happen at this stage.
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So i tried Arc for the first time today.
And something that I immediately noticed as a major improvement is how you navigate back and forward with trackpad gestures.
In Orion you have to drag extremely far to go back or forward, further more the animation of the page coming in over the page is not very fluent and pretty disturbing. Often in Orion i fail the gesture for not swipping for enough and nothing happens, Its a bit better in Safari but also not great compared to Arc.
This leads me to often just using keyboard command or or the arrow keys in the toolbar instead
Orion:
Safari:
Arc:
Obviously you cant see how i move my hand, but just getting rid of the of the page coming in over the other, is a major improvement. The logic of Orion seems to be i have to drag the page over the half way mark for it to activate. where in Arc when the arrow sign is there i can let go
Longely changed the title to Make trackpad gestures for back/forward work more like Brave/Arc .
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After trying some other browsers i noticed alot of them has similar behavior that also works well.
Brave:
Firefox:
Chrome:
So maybe it just comes from Chrome idk. I come from Safari as my main. All of theese are much better IMO
Longely changed the title to Make trackpad gestures for back/forward work more like other browsers .
that's just the default chrome behavior
As a long time Brave user, I know exactly what you're referring to with the gestures. I will say, however, that the gestures in Orion are not actually any bigger or slower in my experience. Maybe what you might be experiencing is an illusion from the relatively 'slow' animation?
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Interesting. Im pretty certain thats not the case on my machine. but will double check.
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on brave i have to aproximatly swipe 1cm. on Orion closer to 3cm, this is done slowly. I think maybe its also speed dependent on Orion/Safari.
Regardless its like night and day the difference, even done fast.
@Dustin can you test the difference doing it more slowly? and also double check the distance your fingers move when doing it faster?
Let me give it a try and I'll try to video Orion and Brave in the same way for you. 
Ok, here is my comparison using this thread.
Brave:
Orion:
Orion does require a faster gesture by a small amount but the overall travel I feel is quite similar.
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Dustin need to be able to see the arrows on Brave, or else i cant tell if you are swipping further then nescessary. so just turn the phone horizontally . OMG.. you also have Natural scoll off, makes it so confussing to look at since the page is moving the opposite direction of the fingers.
thats a pretty big argument for removing the animation IMO
I can't record any further at the moment but this was the minimum swipe distance. I tested beforehand how slow and short I could go.
Yeah, natural scrolling is off.
they want orion to have the swipe animation similar to that of chrome
basic description:
no full websites moving around, just a grey semicircle with an arrow that slowly enlarges the more u scroll left/right
this has less animation, so its less disorienting and requires less swiping to complete
Do Firefox/Chrome/Arc all have same swipe animation? It was not clear which one style was preferred?