- *"When I switch to my Linux laptop to test things, my trackpad is bonkers and ...

- "When I switch to my Linux laptop to test things, my trackpad is bonkers and I have to move my finger in like 1mm increments because otherwise I'd scroll like 10 pages in Firefox. It's infuriatingly frustrating."

The scroll behavior is highly configurable on Firefox' side: check out some of these about:config flags (if this is still of interest),

    mousewheel.acceleration.factor
    mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_x
    mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y
    mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_z
    mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount