Implement Firefox gesture for page back

JunkBrunstoe

I think it's worth considering implementing the back page gesture currently used in the Firefox browser, rather than the one currently used in Orion & Safari. The gesture used in Firefox seems much faster and snappier due to reduced animations, it seems as if the gesture is simply displaying an arrow on the screen, and invoking the back page button as if I had clicked it manually, in the top left.

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Vlad

JunkBrunstoe The gesture is part of WebKit so it is hard to change. Also Safari/Orion gesture has the "Mac aesthetic" to it, while Firefox gesture has "PC aesthetic" to it. Not that it matters to most users, but for many it does.

JunkBrunstoe

Vlad I understand, I would like to keep everything as close to the Mac aesthetic as possible as well, it's just this gesture really irks me sometimes, I think it's just a bad implementation on Apple's side. Would it be possible to add this feature at some point, and have it disabled by default, enabled as an option somewhere in the preferences, I know this feature would most likely be low down on the suggestions list.

Vlad

JunkBrunstoe Aesthetic is part of the Apple's platform design language that took over 25 years to develop and it is not fair to cherry pick things we like or don't. Saying this because we either want apps that are native or not; the moment we make a precedent, and stray away from native/HIG we get Frankenstein-like creations (Firefox and Chrome are good examples of this).