Timeline scrolling, can it be slowed?

Hope the following makes sense.
Is there a way to stop or slow down the scrolling when scrubbing the timeline and touching the edge of the screen? I work on theatre shows and my timelines are often 1 hour long, so when scrubbing and accidently hit the edge of the screen, I end up a few minutes down the timeline in less than a second! I know that the speed depends on how hard you hit the edge of the screen, but it's too easy to scroll at uncontrollable speed and of course it slows my editing down while I try and find where I was again. If the scroll speed was more manageable it would be much more useful than scrolling at warp speed to a place in the timeline that is not wanted.
If I wanted to get down the timeline at speed of course I would just use the drag the cursor bar under the timeline. Anyway, if there is a way to stop the fast scrolling just by scrubbing to the edge of the screen, or at least slow it down please let me know.
Gary

GazzaGreen355 wrote:
… when scrubbing and accidently hit the edge of the screen, I end up a few minutes down the timeline in less than a second! I know that the speed depends on how hard you hit the edge of the screen, …
sorry, wot ???
What app are we talking about - iMovie on iOS, or FCPX on Mac (this board is about that …)
Reaching the end of the timeline (dotted lines) has NO effect when I'm moving the scroll bar ….
OK. I'm mostly use my MagicTrackpad, there's a gesture, two-finger-swipe, and then I scroll fast left/right
Or, for a more refined handling, I recommend the few keyboard short-cuts:, J/K/L (rew/play/ff), cursor left/right (1 frame stepper) or /up/down (next clips start/end), and to go straight to Projects start/end use page up/down.
And there several more, to jump to markers  for example  (very handy! while editing projects with 'parts')...
You find the complete list in the Manual:
http://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.1/?lang=en#ver90ba5929
The emphased part of your post let me clueless… hitting the screen? While using FCPX? ... ????

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