Posted Oct 2, 2013 0:00 UTC (Wed) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205)
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I've had this problem with some mice which have very small scroll increments (typically they make a clicking sound) and which compensate by only sending scroll signals to the PC every 3 or 4 clicks.
With, e.g. the Microsoft white mice I have never had this problem.
It's unfortunately an issue of stupid design rather than build quality, so you can't avoid the problem by just buying expensive mice.