diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/field_tests.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/field_tests.rs
index 287f986f6..1ace27233 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/field_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/field_tests.rs
@@ -317,6 +317,26 @@ fn moving_up_or_down_while_scrubbing_changes_the_speed_and_says_so() {
     u.frame_with(vec![Event::PointerMoved(to), press(false, to)], shift);
     u.frame(vec![]);
     assert_eq!(geom(&u, a).0 - x0, 200.0, "ten points at 2x with Shift");
+    // The pointer reported gone from the window (egui's PointerGone) with the button still down
+    // keeps the speed it had: no notice of 1x, and the scrub goes on at 2x once it is back.
+    let x0 = geom(&u, a).0;
+    let from = label(&mut u, "X");
+    let m = Modifiers::NONE;
+    let press = |pressed, pos| Event::PointerButton { pos, button: egui::PointerButton::Primary, pressed, modifiers: m };
+    u.frame_with(vec![Event::PointerMoved(from), press(true, from)], m);
+    let up = pos2(from.x, from.y - 150.0);
+    u.frame_with(vec![Event::PointerMoved(up)], m);
+    u.frame_with(vec![Event::PointerMoved(pos2(up.x + 10.0, up.y))], m);
+    assert!(toast(&u).contains("2x"), "{}", toast(&u));
+    u.app.ui.toast = None;
+    u.frame_with(vec![Event::PointerGone], m);
+    u.frame_with(vec![Event::PointerMoved(pos2(up.x + 20.0, up.y))], m);
+    u.frame_with(vec![Event::PointerMoved(pos2(up.x + 30.0, up.y))], m);
+    assert!(toast(&u).is_empty(), "no notice while the pointer was gone or back at the same height: {}", toast(&u));
+    let to = pos2(up.x + 30.0, up.y);
+    u.frame_with(vec![Event::PointerMoved(to), press(false, to)], m);
+    u.frame(vec![]);
+    assert_eq!(geom(&u, a).0 - x0, 40.0, "ten points before and ten after the pointer was gone, at 2x both");
 }
 
 #[test]
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/widgets.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/widgets.rs
index 445bf210c..70c785f2c 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/widgets.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/widgets.rs
@@ -168,7 +168,8 @@ pub(crate) fn scrub(ui: &Ui, id: Id, response: &Response, value: Option<f64>, st
     let scrub_id = id.with("scrub");
     if response.dragged() || response.drag_stopped() {
         let began = response.drag_started();
-        let (v0, mut amount, last_speed): (f64, f64, &'static str) = ui.data(|d| d.get_temp(scrub_id)).filter(|_| !began).unwrap_or((v, 0.0, ""));
+        let (v0, mut amount, last_speed, last_rise): (f64, f64, &'static str, f64) =
+            ui.data(|d| d.get_temp(scrub_id)).filter(|_| !began).unwrap_or((v, 0.0, "", 0.0));
         let (dx, rise, shift, alt) = ui.input(|i| {
             let p = &i.pointer;
             // As it begins: all the way from the press (a drag is one only after a few points).
@@ -178,10 +179,14 @@ pub(crate) fn scrub(ui: &Ui, id: Id, response: &Response, value: Option<f64>, st
             // does too. Elsewhere the scrub just stops there.
             let raw = p.motion().map_or(0.0, |m| m.x / i.pixels_per_point);
             let at_edge = moved == 0.0 && p.hover_pos().is_none_or(|at| at.x <= 1.0 || at.x >= i.content_rect().max.x - 1.0);
-            // How far above where the scrub began the pointer is: the speed (`scrub_speed`).
-            let rise = p.hover_pos().zip(p.press_origin()).map_or(0.0, |(at, from)| f64::from(from.y - at.y));
+            // How far above where the scrub began the pointer is: the speed (`scrub_speed`);
+            // None while the pointer is gone from the window.
+            let rise = p.hover_pos().zip(p.press_origin()).map(|(at, from)| f64::from(from.y - at.y));
             (f64::from(if at_edge { raw } else { moved }), rise, i.modifiers.shift, i.modifiers.alt)
         });
+        // Gone from the window (egui says so, the button still down), the pointer keeps the speed
+        // it had rather than falling back to the usual one.
+        let rise = rise.unwrap_or(last_rise);
         let (speed, notice) = scrub_speed(rise);
         // The frame the button goes up moves nothing: the scrub ends where the last one left it.
         if response.dragged() {
@@ -190,7 +195,7 @@ pub(crate) fn scrub(ui: &Ui, id: Id, response: &Response, value: Option<f64>, st
             if notice != last_speed && !(last_speed.is_empty() && speed == 1.0) {
                 ui.data_mut(|d| d.insert_temp(scrub_notice_id(), notice));
             }
-            ui.data_mut(|d| d.insert_temp(scrub_id, (v0, amount, notice)));
+            ui.data_mut(|d| d.insert_temp(scrub_id, (v0, amount, notice, rise)));
         }
         let quantum = if alt { step * 0.1 } else { step };
         return Some(FieldEdit::Scrub(scrubbed(v0, amount, quantum), response.drag_stopped()));