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by dgavey 4445 days ago
None of the scroll animations work in Firefox either. Not just touch based devices. Didn't leave a very good impression on me.
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Kyle from Webflow here. Are you on the latest version of Firefox (28.0)? The scrolling animations are working for us.
Same issue here. FF 28.0 on OS X (10.8) and none of the animations are working.

Works fine on Chrome and Safari

I'm also having similar issues on Firefox 28. Chrome 34 looks good though.
FF28 Fedora, the animations work but scrolling is choppy (like a slide show).
I'm on Firefox 28 on OS X, I see no scrolling animations.
Yes FF 28 on OSX as well.
The scroll animations don't work for me either, Firefox 28 on Windows. Works in Chrome.

But frankly I like it better without them. They add no value to the page. When Bret Victor talks about "directing the user's eyes to the solution," [1] I believe he's assuming an information-dense display, which this is not. The page is designed (as many are now) so that only one thing is on the screen at a time. I already know how to look at the thing I'm scrolling to — that's why I'm scrolling. This eye candy is kind of nauseating and I'm happy to think it's a fad.

This is a critique of the OP, not of Webflow, which I'm sure can be put to good use.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7598793

Works fine on FF on Ubuntu 28.