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I’ve always considered Apple’s scrolling acceleration to be among its most important features. For, like, 30 years. Since the Mac debuted. But I suppose I shoul

by ribs 5y ago

I’ve always considered Apple’s scrolling acceleration to be among its most important features. For, like, 30 years. Since the Mac debuted. But I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that someone out there wants to disable it.

fartcannon 5y ago
I like it for some things and not for others. I like choice.
gruez 5y ago
Last time I used a mac with a scroll wheel mouse, I found the scroll acceleration to be rage inducing. If I was slowly turning the wheel (eg. reading through an article), it would scroll one or two lines on the screen, or maybe nothing at all. If I scrolled faster the speed would ramp up and cause me to scroll past half the page. All the muscle memory I had from linear scroll wheels (ie. windows/linux) was basically useless. Maybe macs weren't supposed to be used with clicky scroll wheels, or that mac users can somehow get used to it, but I doubt anyone coming from windows/linux could get used to it.
- monkpit 5y ago
  It feels natural if you’re using Mac hardware, like a Magic Mouse or the trackpad.
  - gruez 5y ago
    maybe my muscle memory is different for touchpads, but the difference between scrollwheel on mac vs windows is significantly more jarring than touchpad on mac vs windows.
- lilyball 5y ago
  Could your mouse have had built-in scroll acceleration?
  - gruez 5y ago
    It's a logitech mouse, and works expected on windows. Also, I've never encountered a mouse with scroll acceleration, all of them scroll the same amount of lines per "click", regardless of how fast you turn the wheel.
    - vladvasiliu 5y ago
      Some Logitech models (possibly not all) have a "high resolution" scroll wheel which reports events differently. Out of the box it's off, but it can be enabled on windows with the provided software. Not sure if windows by itself can enable it. I'm also not sure what the situation is on the mac. A quick search didn't yield any interesting info on this, it's mostly articles about its support on linux (spoiler: it's been deactivated).
- jkcxn 5y ago
  Were you using firefox by any chance? I get this on firefox after switching from chrome and its so annoying. no idea how to turn it off. every other scrollview in osx works fine but mozilla must have made changes to it
  - gruez 5y ago
    It's been a while since I last used a mouse on a mac, but it definitely wasn't limited to a single app.
  - akiselev 5y ago
    I believe the settings you're looking for are documented here [1] (go to url `about:config`) [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/AcceleratedScrolling#Design:_Acceleration_Model_for_Scrolling https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/AcceleratedScrolli...
brundolf 5y ago
It's great for touch-based scrolling, it's terrible for a clicky wheel

by ribs 5y ago

fartcannon 5y ago

I like it for some things and not for others. I like choice.

gruez 5y ago

Last time I used a mac with a scroll wheel mouse, I found the scroll acceleration to be rage inducing. If I was slowly turning the wheel (eg. reading through an article), it would scroll one or two lines on the screen, or maybe nothing at all. If I scrolled faster the speed would ramp up and cause me to scroll past half the page. All the muscle memory I had from linear scroll wheels (ie. windows/linux) was basically useless. Maybe macs weren't supposed to be used with clicky scroll wheels, or that mac users can somehow get used to it, but I doubt anyone coming from windows/linux could get used to it.

monkpit 5y ago
It feels natural if you’re using Mac hardware, like a Magic Mouse or the trackpad.
- gruez 5y ago
  maybe my muscle memory is different for touchpads, but the difference between scrollwheel on mac vs windows is significantly more jarring than touchpad on mac vs windows.
lilyball 5y ago
Could your mouse have had built-in scroll acceleration?
- gruez 5y ago
  It's a logitech mouse, and works expected on windows. Also, I've never encountered a mouse with scroll acceleration, all of them scroll the same amount of lines per "click", regardless of how fast you turn the wheel.
  - vladvasiliu 5y ago
    Some Logitech models (possibly not all) have a "high resolution" scroll wheel which reports events differently. Out of the box it's off, but it can be enabled on windows with the provided software. Not sure if windows by itself can enable it. I'm also not sure what the situation is on the mac. A quick search didn't yield any interesting info on this, it's mostly articles about its support on linux (spoiler: it's been deactivated).
jkcxn 5y ago
Were you using firefox by any chance? I get this on firefox after switching from chrome and its so annoying. no idea how to turn it off. every other scrollview in osx works fine but mozilla must have made changes to it
- gruez 5y ago
  It's been a while since I last used a mouse on a mac, but it definitely wasn't limited to a single app.
- akiselev 5y ago
  I believe the settings you're looking for are documented here [1] (go to url `about:config`) [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/AcceleratedScrolling#Design:_Acceleration_Model_for_Scrolling https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/AcceleratedScrolli...

brundolf 5y ago

It's great for touch-based scrolling, it's terrible for a clicky wheel