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Scrolling acceleration in Mountain Lion?

When skimming through long documents in previous versios of OS X, I would continually scroll small, quick intervals on my trackpad. In Mountain Lion, it seems Apple has added an acceleration to this scrolling behavior, a bit similar to trackpad cursor behavior. Now, when you continually scroll small bits in rapid succession, it accelerates until your scrolling skips dosens of pages at once.

Is there any way to disable this behavior? (Although I'm guessing not)

Posted on Jul 26, 2012 8:58 AM

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pmgeo

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Jul 7, 2013 5:22 PM in response to Joh T

I must say I'm onboard with a back to the future for scrolling in Mtn Lion, which is just one of the really aggravating "upgrades" in Mtn Lion. I really want my scroll arrows back!!

chmed

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Jul 7, 2013 8:21 PM in response to chmed

I have since discovered that I had the Adobe pdf plug-in enabled and the accelerated scrolling in safari pdfs was caused by that. Since switching to the preview pdf plug-in (or whatever you call it) the scrolling is more "normal". I do occasionally miss the old frame work for scrolling in documents but I'm getting fairly comfortable. What is still not working well is scrolling when screen sharing another machine. But that's another ball of wax.

Jul 14, 2013 5:42 PM in response to Joh T

Has Apple addressed this "feature" yet with an option to disable it? I'm not buying another Mac until it happens.

Dec 13, 2013 5:49 AM in response to sli92

Thankyou so much for linking this - it's literally the only thing I've found to fix this behaviour.

It's doing my head in how every single discussion about scroll acceleration ends up about natural scrolling, trackpad inertia or how "it's better".

Scrolling acceleration in Mountain Lion?