| Tip 2 | Turn Off Irritating “Rubber-Band” Scrolling |
You might have noticed that if you scroll to the top or bottom of a document or web page within some OS X apps like TextEdit, the page continues to scroll a little into a boundary area, before springing back. This is known as rubber-band scrolling and, depending on your point of view, can be rather annoying.
Deactivating Rubber-Band Scrolling in Most OS X Apps
To turn it off in most applications, all you need to do is open a Terminal window (open Finder, select the Applications list, and then in the list of applications double-click Terminal within the Utilities folder), and type the following, before logging out and back in again:
| | defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -int 0 |
To reactivate ...
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