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Is it possible to disable animations in the DE but have them enabled in Firefox? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 week ago by GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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I disable animations either through Gnome's accessibility setting or KDE's slider to instant. I find that Gnome's animations are just too slow by default and KDE's tend to be janky. So while I want my window manager to have instant animations, I don't need my applications to do so.

Is it possible to disable the animations from the DE's settings but to keep them like normal in Firefox? Example: when I press ctrl+t it's OK if the new tab has an animation when it's created in the browser's UI.

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[–] MrOtherGuy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Go to about:config and create a new number pref with name ui.prefersReducedMotion and set the value to 0. Afterwards that Firefox profile should use animations even if they are disabled on OS. Works on Windows at least.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

My hero. That also works on Linux. Thank you!

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Sidepoint: In Gnome if I'm using Xorg the DE has instant animations but Firefox has normal ones. Only in Gnome Wayland does that effect propagate to the browser itself. Unsure about KDE Xorg.