[X4U] scrollbar issues; scrolling too fast

[stephen e. schwartz]

there has been a lot of useful discussion of scrollbar issues:


>
>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.
>
>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.....

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.

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.

thanks

-steve