Scrolling acceleration in Mountain Lion?

There's a scroll slider in System Preferences > Accessiblity > Mouse and Trackpad on the left > Mouse options button..

You might be able to fine tune a little.

I'm fighting with exactly the same problem since I've upgraded to Mountain Lion. It's really annoying me! I hope there is a fix soon.

Go to System Prefrences > Accesibility > Mouse and Trackpad > Trackpad Options and next to scrolling it will say: Scrolling "with inertia" click there and change it to "without inertia".

What you have right now

What you want

That hasn't solved the problem. Inertia has nothing to do with accelerated scrolling!

I am having this issue as well. It is very annoying, small scrolls take me to the bottom of a page because of it!

I've already contacted the Apple support. It's probably a feature and if many people report this as annoying it will be fixed with the next update.

You can pump up your scroll speed so it is easier to sroll up and down a page (with inertia also turned on for a flick scroll, similar to iOS) :

This is also in System Preferences>accessibility>mouse and trackpad>trackpad options or mouse options. after going there this screen should pop up.

Other then these two methods, there is no way to set a momentous scrolling that increases with consecutive touches.

That's strange. I don't have the second option. But I use the magic mouse an no trackpad.

This is driving me crazy, when reading long documents I slowly scroll down with my magic mouse using many small scroll movements. With accelerated scrolling these act cumulitively and suddenly my page starts scrollin go out of control unless I conciously stop scrolling for over a second. I don't understand why they bothered, I never had a problem scrolling long documents fast in Lion but now I have problems scrolling them slowly.

Really wish Apple would give us hidden options to revert to the old behaviour when they make changes like this.

They changed the mouse movement acceleration curve from SL to Lion and that still drives me crazy with no way to revert to the previous.

I'm now using the trial of Smart Scroll until Apple realeases a fix. Install only and the annoying scrolling acceleration is gone.

http://www.marcmoini.com/sx_en.html

I agree, i hope they give people the option to revert back, I basically have to use the keyboard to scroll because it jumps multiple pages when using the magic mouse.

I agree with Joh T and others.The accelerated scrolling is a problem, and needs a simple user tuning "on-off" switch in the system preferences.

The idea behind it:

"Instead of having to monotonously scroll up or down for an extended period of time, while trying to reach either end of a page, we will impliment a feature which will multiply the scrolling speed after the third consecutive scrolling."

A real use case:

"After only three normal/consecutive scrolls down or up a page, the scrolling accelerates to an uncontrollably fast speed. Therefore, when I want to keep a steady pace while scrolling down or up a page (either looking at galleries of pictures or reading quickly), I have to count when I scroll; 1..2..3—and then stop scrolling for a short period, then continue scrolling."

It is surprisingly disturbing to user flow; but it's a simple fix which will come when enough people react.

Hope you are aware Apple.