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I second the motion: please add an option to disable continuous zoom.

In my case we have just migrated from v2 to v3 and all of our icons have begun to experience a momentary increase/decrease in size during each scroll action (didn't happen in v2 becase we didn't have continuous zoom switched on).
 
This is now causing confusion amongst our user base, so it would be great to be able to prevent it from happening by switching off continuous zoom.

Continuous zoom appears to be causing a regression bug within FireFox 4 when using custom overlays.

As a premier customer, this is a big deal.  Having the ability to disable this feature would allow us to mitigate the effect as a solution is determined.

Continuous zoom is crap. Try zooming with the slider from z=18 to z=0 and Firefox hangs for 30 seconds. Give us a way disable this please!! Even better disable by default cause it's crap, then let people enable it if they want it.

If it was such a great feature why doesn't maps.google.com use it???

I say if the zoom level changes +/- more than 1 then don't use the feature. If you're just stepping incremently between zooms, I guess it works okay. Or Animate the transition over a longer period of time, but then that'll take too long.

you really notice this problem when using the fitBounds() function...

Not really johannes, it is catching the scroll event that is not implemented in web browsers consistently. One browser's mousewheel is another's DOMMouseScroll. I could use your code to disable zoom altogether.
I went trough the maps implementation. However once the code went trough closure compiler, it is no fun reading.

Anyway, this issue seems to have been fixed to an extend that "scrolwheel: false" would make sure zoom is no longer triggered on mere scroll. However the mouse is still caught, which is inconsistent with the maps implementation.

Good test case could be actually my page http://www.flatmaterooms.co.uk/room-to-let/london-princes-av. There you can see both: the map and the streetview as you scroll down. Both of them have "scrolwheel: false". However only the streetview would still catch your mouse as you scroll over.

the transition animation is quite processor intensive and runs extremely slowly on older machines. It takes several seconds to transition between map and aerial views. I would definitely like the option of disabling all animations in the API so that I can offer this option to my users via a check box.

I really need this fixed in a hurry because I'm going to make some videos about my project http://beta.findtoilet.dk to participate in some competitions and see how it looks http://beta.findtoilet.dk/DIV/issue_3033+3371.jpg and :-(

I third the motion for disabling continuous zoom