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> Huh, yeah, turning on "Reduce motion" does indeed disable bounce scroll in Firefox. Definitely a strange choice on their part! (It doesn't affect it in other apps.

The current safari bounce effect bounced ALL fixed elements when you bounce the page body. And by copy that. It basically make youtube(or probably any similierly designed website) unusable for anyone have motion sickness. Because the most part of UI is fixed. And hense it is part of "Reduce motion" setting.

Side notes: Safari agreed that bouncing fixed elements is a bug after Firefox implemented it. So this effect will probably be reverted later.



Interesting. OK, so I think two things here, if I understand you correctly:

– Bounce effect IS disorienting for some people in some contexts. Hence the decision to disable it in line w/ "Reduce motion" pref.

– On YouTube, Safari bounce-scrolls the whole page, whereas Firefox just bounce-scrolls the scrollable part. I agree the Firefox behavior seems better here (and it sounds like Safari might adopt it).




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