diff --git a/src/lib/ui/motion/viewTransition.ts b/src/lib/ui/motion/viewTransition.ts
index bfa8916..e576efa 100644
--- a/src/lib/ui/motion/viewTransition.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ui/motion/viewTransition.ts
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 // browser's View Transitions API so route changes cross-fade cleanly and
 // shared-element transitions (Fleet card → Server detail hero) morph.
 //
-// Chromium ships the API today; Firefox and Safari fall through to a plain
-// navigation — same behavior as before, just without the transition.
+// Browsers without the API use ordinary navigation.
 
 // Structural type — accepts whatever SvelteKit passes to onNavigate without
 // coupling to a specific @sveltejs/kit version's type name.
@@ -13,15 +12,20 @@ export function enableViewTransitions(navigation: NavigationLike): Promise<void>
     // Feature-detect without a custom Document extension — the DOM lib type
     // varies between TS versions, and any narrowing has to survive both.
     const start = (document as unknown as {
-        startViewTransition?: (cb: () => void | Promise<void>) => unknown;
+        startViewTransition?: (cb: () => void | Promise<void>) => { ready: Promise<void>; finished: Promise<void> };
     }).startViewTransition;
 
     if (typeof start !== 'function') return;
 
     return new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
-        start.call(document, async () => {
-            resolve();
-            await navigation.complete;
-        });
+        try {
+            const transition = start.call(document, async () => {
+                resolve();
+                // Another navigation can supersede this one during its animation.
+                await navigation.complete.catch(() => {});
+            });
+            void transition.ready.catch(() => {});
+            void transition.finished.catch(() => {}).finally(resolve);
+        } catch { resolve(); }
     });
 }
diff --git a/tests/unit/ui-view-transition.test.ts b/tests/unit/ui-view-transition.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..da884b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/ui-view-transition.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import { afterEach, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { enableViewTransitions } from '../../src/lib/ui/motion/viewTransition.js';
+
+afterEach(() => vi.unstubAllGlobals());
+
+it('allows navigation to continue when a transition is skipped or superseded', async () => {
+    let finish: () => void = () => {};
+    const finished = new Promise<void>(resolve => { finish = resolve; });
+    const complete = Promise.reject(new Error('navigation aborted'));
+    vi.stubGlobal('document', { startViewTransition: (update: () => Promise<void>) => {
+        void update().then(finish);
+        return { ready: Promise.reject(new DOMException('Skipped transition', 'AbortError')), finished };
+    } });
+    await enableViewTransitions({ complete });
+    await finished;
+});
+
+it('continues without animation when the browser cannot start a transition', async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal('document', { startViewTransition: () => { throw new Error('Unavailable'); } });
+    await enableViewTransitions({ complete: Promise.resolve() });
+    vi.stubGlobal('document', {});
+    expect(enableViewTransitions({ complete: Promise.resolve() })).toBeUndefined();
+});