Scroll section-by-section via the scrollbar
Jun 02, '05 08:46:00AM • Contributed by: Volta
I'm not totally sure if this is Tiger-only or not (it's all I can test it on), so this may work in 10.3, too. If you click and hold in the scrollbar's "open space" (above or below the slider), and then move the mouse, you will be able to scroll a page at a time. It works nicely in Safari. I also tried it in the Finder and it seems to work there, but does not offer an animated feedback as does Safari.
[robg adds: I don't know if this is new behavior or not, but it's something I've never thought to try (then again, I have a scroll-wheel mouse that I usually scroll with). It seems to work nicely in Cocoa apps like iChat, Safari, and Mail. It works somewhat in certain Carbon apps (the Finder), and not at all in others (Word). For now, I have not coded this one as 10.4 only; if someone can test in 10.3 and post their results, I'll modify the hint if necessary.]