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Update: December 22, 2008: The latest version of LCC for the Mac works flawlessly, and I can even map all of my mouse buttons. Logitech isn’t known for good drivers, and it still sucks that they took this long to come out with drivers that wouldn’t crash your machine.

I recently heard that Logitech had new drivers out for the Mac. I was interested, because my most favorite mouse in the world is the Logitech MX500 series of mice. Nice shape, lots of useful buttons. I got sick of not being able to use the “Cruise up” and “Cruise down” buttons for scrolling quickly, and I really wanted to be able to use the forward and back buttons on the mouse for web navigation.

The only problem is that Logitech has their head completely engulfed in their ass when it comes to writing drivers that work.

First off, their control panel crashes more than Mel Gibson. I was so afraid of making the panel crash, that I’d set one button, and back all the way out to make sure I didn’t lose anything.

Once I managed to get my buttons configured just right, I was disappointed to learn that however they implemented the “Expose” feature was frustratingly ever so slightly different than Apple’s.

You see, I like to put Expose on the application switcher button on the MX500. The application switcher button is PERFECT for this, and it’s really fast. With default Apple drivers, I can press and hold this button to activate Expose, mouse-over a window, and release the button to have Expose “cancel.”

Because Logitech sucks ass, I have to press the button once to activate, and press it again to deactivate. Screw that.

I managed to get around this problem by mapping this button to “Mouse Button 6,” which is then set to activate Expose in the Apple control panel pane.

Finally, everything was perfect, or so I thought.

Then I decided to install the Logitech drivers on my MacBookPro (I had been using them on my Mac Pro), and a totally new problem comes up.

Unplugging the Logitech MX500 with these piece of shit drivers installed causes my laptop to kernel panic. Every. Single. Time.

With all due respect, Logitech, fuck you. You’ve lost a customer. All I ever wanted was to use my mouse buttons.

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