 <p>There's no general "turn everything off" facility. You need to select what you want to turn off and do each individually, if that's actually possible...</p> <p>You can't disable animated zoom. This is the subject of a <a href="http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=3033" rel="nofollow">long-standing enhancement request</a> which has been marked WontFix.</p> <p>There's no option to disable layer-switch fade. I don't think there's an enhancement request, either.</p> <p>Panning for InfoWindows is controlled by the <a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/reference#InfoWindowOptions" rel="nofollow"><code>disableAutoPan</code></a> option <em>for each InfoWindow</em>. You can set that option individually with <code>InfoWindow.setOptions()</code>.</p> <p>IE6 is <a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/faq#browsersupport" rel="nofollow">not a supported browser</a> for Version 3. If it works, it's a bonus.</p>