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hasUAVisualTransition landed in Firefox 149, making it available across all major engines. As well as having a very catchy name, it lets you avoid doubling up on page transitions. Here's how it works:

Chris Haynes

@lamplightdev.com

This is most welcome! What would be even more welcome would be the ability to disable UA transitions too, so that we can get other browsers to behave like Firefox does here.

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Jake Archibald

@jakearchibald.com

31 Mar

I found a hack! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Jake Archibald@jakearchibald.com

Folks asked if there was a way to disable Chrome's own 'back' transitions, and I didn't think there was, but… you can use a CloseWatcher to listen for the back gesture (which disables Chrome's transition), and then call location.back(). bsky.app/profile/did:...

Chris Haynes

@lamplightdev.com

31 Mar

Ah, great, thanks - I will try that out