How to stop uncontrolled scrolling

Go in System Preferences > Appearances and try checking or unchecking "smart scrolling." See it that makes any difference. Also, login to another User account and see if it does it there too.

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I'm having exactly the same problem. It's intermittent and hard to duplicate, but you will be scrolling down a page at a time and it will suddenly take off as if you were holding down the click pad. I thought the click pad might be stuck, but if it were you would be able to pull the curser away and then bring it back and scrolling would continue, but it doesn't. I thought it might be a hardware problem, but since I'm hearing about this happening to others it seems that it's software related.

Incidentally, It doesn't seem to matter what program that I'm using.

Anyone have any ideas?

Hi Tom,

It seems that you have "Jump to here" enabled. To toggle this setting, go to Appearance in System Preferences.

Personally, I prefer Jump to here, but maybe you prefer "Jump to the next page."

Anneliese

Message was edited by: nanotechmama

Both I and my colleague (who also has a MacBook Pro) have the same problem. And we do not have "Jump to Here" or "smooth scrolling" enabled.