Two finger scroll not working properly in Safari and Chrome since Mavericks

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Probably a dumb question, but how do you avoid these unresponsive plugins and pages that cause the scroll to stop working?

Just close the browser? Any other options?

I'm experiencing the same issue. Annoying as ****.

working for me! Thanks

Having the same problem, scroll seems to suddenly stop working from time to time and i have to reboot to resolve it...

I was wrong. 2 finger scrolling started working properly after I uddated to Mavericks. It was acting hinky beforehand.

So same happened to me today.

A temporary fix is to disable the following features:

http://cl.ly/image/3p1a460P2u2g and

http://cl.ly/image/0C162R2Q390h

(source: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=310649)

activating scrolling in System Preferences > Accessibility helped in my case

srdjanfromheidelberg: May your day rain chocolate chip cookies/brownies/your preferred alternative treat. I have been working to find a fix on this for two days now and your suggestion finally made the difference.

I started having the trackpad scroll problem Friday. Rebooting fixed it then but Saturday I completely lost trackpad scrolling ability in all apps. I tried the same things Trinli- suggests above, which I found various places online, but the problem persisted. Today I decided to give it one more try, found this thread, and voilá! Doesn't matter whether yours was just the final piece of the puzzle or the complete solution -- thank you thank you thank you!

Deets: MacBook Air purchased end of January 2014 with Mavericks already installed. Mainly I use Firefox, also fully updated. I had a similar scrolling issue on Feb 12, which I solved by unchecking all options in System Preferences/Accessibility and rebooting, per a MacForum suggestion.

I checked the FF update history and see that one was applied on March 19, the day before I started having problems. I wonder if that update undid the need to uncheck the Accessibility options. (I looked at the update details at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/28.0/releasenotes/ but lack the technical background to understand them.)

not on this ocassion. I dont run any plugins at all except for flash which ever internet user in the world uses, and use the same half dozen websites i have always used

I'm on a MBP 15in, 10.8, and had given up on this feature 2 years ago. Was bored and thought I'd see if anything had changed. I'd bought this machine with 10.6OX. Perusing discussions dating back to 2008 till now, NOTHING worked until this fix. Amazing. Didn't even need to reboot.

Safari: if I try scroll back, the entire page freezes - can't scroll anywhere / do anything

Chrome: just can't scroll back; no freezing

I have no idea what triggered this. Just started today and there were NO updates or installations done at all. How has this problem been around for 6+ months without a resolution?

EDIT: also just realized that "Tap to click" mysteriously activated itself. I never had this activated nor changed the settings, and it became activated (I guess) at the same time that this "Swipe between pages" problem occurred. Might be connected somehow...

Same problem in Firefox (28) - started after updating toMavericks (10.9.2) and Java (1.7.0_55). The Accesibility feature worked for about 30 seconds, then nada. But Safari & Chrome seem to be functional.

But I didn't update Firefox. Major change was the Java update that seemed to break the two-finger swipe in FF.

I have same problem on "magic" mouse (which now is no longer very "magic") and the detached Apple touch pad, which probably also has a fancy name, but now is worthless.

Where is the bug?

What is strange is that under system preferences, the little animation still acts like everything will work, but it does not.