New iMac - Mouse operates differently in Google Maps

[pbridges]

With my new iMac, when I use single finger scrolling on the magic mouse it scrolls in most packages.
But when I use Google Maps, the same action does zooming on the map, in a somewhat dramatic manner.
Is there any way to change this behavior ?

Other Google selections seem to work normally.

[Dan Millar]

That is the correct behaviour, as single-finger swiping up/down "emulates" a mouse wheel being rolled up/down, and in Google's Maps, that "gesture" causes the map to zoom-in or out. Moving the map requires a click-and-drag gesture.

My one gripe with the so-called Magic Mouse is that the scroll wheel is only half-emulated. That is, with a "regular" mouse - one with a scroll wheel - you had the added luxury of a click-able scroll wheel. This was my favourite way to switch apps - a click on the scroll wheel would present the app-switcher, then scroll up-down to select the app to switch to. Can NOT do this with a Magic Mouse! Damn you Apple! Steve Jobs told me I was just "holding it wrong". Arggggggggh!

Happy (clickless scroll wheel) Mac'ing!

Dan

[ben schmidt]

With my new iMac, when I use single finger scrolling on the magic mouse it scrolls in most packages.
But when I use Google Maps, the same action does zooming on the map, in a somewhat dramatic manner.
Is there any way to change this behavior ?

Other Google selections seem to work normally.

You can leverage Snow Leopard's Safari 5 support for extensions to override the Google Maps Zoom behaviour, by adding a 3rd-party Safari 5 extension such as:

• Google Maps Scroll Zoom 1.0 by Mario Tausch - Disables Google Maps' scroll zoom

Once the Google Maps Scroll Zoom 1.0 Safari extension (.safariextz) is downloaded and run, Safari 5 will no longer zoom google maps using the trackpad/mouse. To disable or remove the extension, click on:
 

• Safari > Preferences... > Extensions

...ben

PS. There's probably something similar for Firefox, but I don't use Firefox.