Currently, on mobile, [our axis lock mode is strict](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/b3b401254229f0a26f7ee625ef5f09c6c31e3949/mobile/android/app/mobile.js#500). That is, you can't break the axis lock without lifting your finger. On Chrome, it appears to be sticky (that is, you can break the axis lock without lifting your finger if you change direction enough). Jeff thinks we should be more like Chrome. This decisions was most recently evaluated by UX [in January 2016](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1226655#c6), at which time the decision was to keep it strict because that was Fennec's previous behaviour and we don't want to change existing behaviour too much. Perhaps this is a good time to reevaluate now that we are pivoting from Fennec to new mobile browsers.
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Currently, on mobile, [our axis lock mode is strict](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/b3b401254229f0a26f7ee625ef5f09c6c31e3949/mobile/android/app/mobile.js#500). That is, you can't break the axis lock without lifting your finger. On Chrome, it appears to be sticky (that is, you can break the axis lock without lifting your finger if you change direction enough). Jeff thinks we should be more like Chrome. This decision was most recently evaluated by UX [in January 2016](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1226655#c6), at which time the decision was to keep it strict because that was Fennec's previous behaviour and we don't want to change existing behaviour too much. Perhaps this is a good time to reevaluate now that we are pivoting from Fennec to new mobile browsers.