OS X Lion disable rubber-band scrolling

Question

In OS X Lion, is there a way to disable rubber-band scrolling? This is the bounce effect when the content pane is scrolled beyond the top or bottom edge of the window. This only occurs with a trackpad.

Answer 1

Unfortunately the only way is to turn of inertia scrolling. System Preferences > Universal Access > Mouse & Trackpad > Trackpad Options > Scrolling > without intertia

Answer 2

Inertia scrolling is NOT the same as the elasticity effect when you reach the top or bottom of a page, in an app that supports it (like Safari 5.1.)

That being said, we have a built in way to turn off inertia scrolling. We do NOT have a way to turn off the elasticity effect, if we're using input devices that support gestures.

I have found this CSS snippet that apparently disables it:

body {
  overflow: hidden;
}

Now to figure out how to implement the CSS rule in every web page we visit... probably via a Safari extension, like QuickStyle or NinjaKit.

QuickStyle: http://canisbos.com/quickstyle

Answer 3

Disable rubberbanding, but not vanishing scrollbars:

defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -bool false

... and restore:

defaults delete -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding

This does not impact Safari nor iTunes, which use their own always-on rubberband system (possibly not using NSScrollView at all, or forcing rubberbanding to be on).

(also, this belongs to http://apple.stackexchange.com)