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Implement Chrome/Firefox animation for page back
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?
Would perhaps a global toggle to disable all animations fulfill this request and other similar ones?
that's not the request, they just want a different animation
yes the distance you have to swipe is also shorter as detailed in the original post, and thats an important aspect aswell.
"Do Firefox/Chrome/Arc all have same swipe animation? It was not clear which one style was preferred?"
As shown above all other browsers then Safari/Orion i have tested seem to have no page animation, just an arrow that shows up as an indicator. and that arrow appears to be mostly the same on all of them.
Its not important to me how the arrow looks, what im interested in is shorter swipe distance and not having the page animation.
But here are some suggestions to what could be used:
chevron.left.square.fill
chevron.left.circle.fill
My suggestion would be having it go from 0 to around 80% opacity depending on how far you swipe (like the other browsers), you could include having it come in from the left and stop at the position its at in the screenshot above, but i dont think its nescessary and maybe also less elegant IMO
Im also completly fine with how it looks on any of the other browsers.
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found this requesting a similar thing:
https://orionfeedback.org/d/1700-implement-chromefirefox-gesture-for-page-back
Another thing I noticed that is also pretty disturbing is that in Safari/Orion when using gesture to navigate back, it jumps to where you where last on the page and hangs there for a while, only to jump back up to the top of the page:
Strangely enough this behavior doesnt happen if you use back arrow in toolbar.
Here is Firefox back gesture as comparison:
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