Increasing scroll speed

If it's only for web, you can change the scroll speed in FireFox:

Edit menu > Preferences > Advanced tab > Browsing group: disable smooth scrolling

Fine-tuning:

Type enter about:config in the address bar
Find and change mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines to FALSE
Then change the mousewheel.withnokey.numlines from 1 to whatever you want.
For Firefox versions 73.3.1 and later: - change the mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount from 1 to whatever you want.

And a more general, system-wide solution:

For touchpads, some drivers allow customizing scroll sensitivity, like GPointingDeviceSettings (GSynaptics successor).
For mice, currently Gnome offers no way for a user to adjust a mouse wheel speed. It's a known wanted feature, triaged as WishList. A solution would be to use some hacks, or really dig deep into a mess of configuration files, and possibly some recompiles. Not fun if you need to adjust the value until you find a comfortable one.

Just unplug the mouse (mine was wireless), and then plug it back in to fix this issue.

I was searching for a long time for this fix and even rebooted the machine to no avail.

Maybe a full shutdown would have fixed the issue.

For Ubuntu 12.10 I found that it it a little different for the Firefox work around.

Open about:config (type it into the address bar) and search for:

mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount

Then change the number associated with it. Mine was set to 5. I changed it to 60 and it works how I want it now.

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