March 28, 2008
What Is It with the New OS?
So, I'm just scrolling along, minding my own business, when the freakin' scrollbar decides that because I'm reading, and skimming headlines, and . . . whatever . . . I must want it to go
faster. So it just decides to go faster, and it skips past some text. So I have to keep going back to where I was before.
I can't find it in Safari preferences. I can't find it in the OS preferences. I just don't know how to fix it, and it's fucking pissing me off.
I do not care about being homeless. I do not care about not having time or space to wash my hair. I do not care about having to do 1.5 hours of housework, very quickly, every morning before I leave the house. I do not even care about the leftward listing "current affairs" bookshelf at my local bookstore/coffee house.
What I care about is the fucking insane turbo-scrolling that goes on in my windows, when I don't want it to. And I'm out for blood.
Posted by: Attila Girl at
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Attila, it might not be the OS. If you're using a laptop (this has happened to all of my previous Dells) it might be the touchpad/mouse keys embedded below the keyboard. After a time, those keys become hyper-sensitive and the first symptom is a jumping cursor (moving drastically from one point to another). Next comes "turbo-scrolling" such as you describe. If this is true, then installing a mouse and disabling the touchpad would cure it.
Took me two laptops to figure out that particular trick. Now I keep a small mouse in my bag for any time I'm not on a docking station.
If that's not the problem, kindly disregard my entire comment.
Cheers.
Posted by: Woody at March 29, 2008 10:00 AM (N7uu0)
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I think it's an undocumented feature. Apple has added some of the gestural actions from iPhone to the OS. I've noticed some strange scrolling issues not just in Safari but other apps as well.
I don't think the software that's supposed to tell it don't do that is working right.
Posted by: Stephen Macklin at March 29, 2008 01:09 PM (R7LgM)
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