[X4U] scrollbar issues; scrolling too fast

[Crandon David]

Yes, I've noticed this as well. I haven't noticed if it's in some apps more than others, but it does happen in Safari.

I'll just be scrolling along, and then all of the sudden the damn thing gets a mind of it's own and starts to scroll at warp speed.

Another thing I've noticed with Mountain Lion is occassionally it'll sort of get "stuck" toward the bottom and act as if it's still loading the page and the bottom isn't really the bottom and it keeps jumping back up. Anybody noticed this at all?


On Aug 4, 2012, at 12:34 PM, stephen e. schwartz <ses at bnl.gov> wrote:

> there has been a lot of useful discussion of scrollbar issues:
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>> Or, sometimes when reading text or looking through a list of items/lines it's more efficient to click in the scrollbar area because then you get an exact one page movement. It's actually amazing how many people don't realize that. At work, I see people trying to scroll through long list on a desktop computer without a trackball. They try to pull the scrollbar tab thing gingerly along as they scan down the page.
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>> Then, I show them that all they have to do is click in the scrollbar slot itself, and it will jump one page at a time and they won't miss anything. They are always amazed.....
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> My question in 10.6.8 is that in some apps, eg Word, TextWrangler, finder (a folder with a lot of documents, in list view) (but not firefox, eudora) , clicking in the down arrow gently moves the text up at a constant rate at which I can follow with my eyes, as I am looking for a particular spot in the document. Then the app (or the OS) figures it knows better than I do and starts scrolling fast, too fast for the eye to follow.
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> Is there any way to disable this? It is not fixed in preferences as far as I can tell. Seems to be app specific. Which is strange for such a universal function as scrolling.
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> thanks
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> -steve
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