Set scroll speed in Firefox on Linux

25 Feb 2024

By far the most annoying thing for me about desktop Linux in 2024 is that there is still no well-supported way to adjust scroll speed. Yes, you can use libinput-config, and there are other options like IMWheel, but the fact that I still cannot change the scroll speed through Gnome settings or by changing a single option in a config file is a bit baffling.

Anyhow, since most of the scrolling I do is in Firefox, there is a useful setting you can quickly set to control scroll speed. Open about:config and set mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount to your preferred value. For reference, I've set mine to 100. Enjoy reasonable scrolling speeds!