diff --git a/frontend/src/components/SettingsModal.tsx b/frontend/src/components/SettingsModal.tsx
index 507337c..d6baac8 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/SettingsModal.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/SettingsModal.tsx
@@ -7456,7 +7456,12 @@ export function SettingsModal({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChan
             {/* Tall enough to work through. It was capped at 224 px — about six
                 rows of a list that can hold two hundred — inside a panel that
                 does not scroll to reveal what the box could not show. */}
-            <div className="max-h-[28rem] overflow-y-auto overscroll-contain rounded border border-border">
+            {/* NO overscroll-contain here. It stops the wheel from chaining to
+                the settings pane behind, so with a short list — nothing to
+                scroll inside the box — the pointer over the table froze the
+                whole panel. The box scrolls when it has to; the page scrolls
+                the rest of the time. */}
+            <div className="max-h-[28rem] overflow-y-auto rounded border border-border">
               <table className="w-full text-[11px]">
                 <thead className="sticky top-0 bg-card text-left text-muted-foreground border-b border-border">
                   <tr>