Trackpad scrolls WAY too fast!

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Trackpad scrolls WAY too fast!

Is there any way I can slow down the speed of which I scroll through pages (on any application) with my trackpad?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.7), 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Memory, 15.4" Display

Posted on May 18, 2009 2:26 PM

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Answer 1

May 19, 2009 8:22 PM in response to Technologeek KMJ

After all, there has to be a preference for the trackpad that I can adjust to slow down how fast things scroll on a page...

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Answer 2

Fl0w

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May 25, 2009 4:27 AM in response to Technologeek KMJ

Go to "Control Panel > Mouse" and change the scroll speed. It's set to 3 by default, but I took it down to 2, which I find reasonable.

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Answer 3

May 28, 2009 12:37 PM in response to Fl0w

Thanks! That did help! I put my speed down to 1, as I thought that 2 was still too fast.

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Answer 4

Jun 10, 2009 6:33 PM in response to Technologeek KMJ

I found that, along with going to Internet Options and disabling "smooth scrolling" in combination really improved things dramatically with FireFox 3.x and IE 8 with an MBP 17" and Vista/SP2.

It makes things usable except for one annoying bug for which there is usually a workaround: If in the browser the webpage is wider than the browser window size and a horizontal scrollbar is present, there is no stability in the horizontal direction while doing vertical scrolling by dragging two fingers on the trackpad, so the page is right and left and just makes for a miserable scrolling experience.

It's tough to know sometimes how problems that major make it out the door sometimes, unless there is some configuration trick I'm not aware of yet to resolve that issue. My workaround is to just try to have the browser window wide enough, but of course that wastes precious real estate too often.

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