Issue with Mouse and Dictionary Pop up on new Macbook Pro

Hello,

This is a really easy fix:

System Preferences > Trackpad > Point & Click > Uncheck "Look Up" > Voila. Whoever you spoke to at Apple was an untrained, underqualified individual, kind of like the ones I always get to talk to.

Cheers!

Thanks you fixed the problem. Apple had previously unchecked the other two boxes for trackpad problems. Now all 3 are unchecked. I paid for them, all 3, why should a customer disable a feature he paid for? It seems like if their engineering can't fix it, a rebate is in order.

Changing any or all settings on the Trackpad did nothing. Whenever I move the mouse quickly, a brown Dictionary page pops up and covers the whole screen. There is an arrow on the lower right that will close it but it continues to pop up.

Did anyone help you with this? I am having this exact problem and I cannot seem to figure out how to fix it. No one at apple knows either.

My desktop also keeps enlarging, at its own will, and open windows are zooming off the page. . .

MacBook Pro, OS X 10.8.2

Please help!

I know this has been dormant awhile, but this all just started happening with me as well. It does not happen when I'm plugged into my external display -- mouse works just fine, no strange display jumps or zooms. However, as soon as I unplug and use my normal display, I have the same exact issues noted above. I did follow your advice and that took care of the dictionary issue, but everything else is still happening...any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

I had this same problem. If my mouse pointer hovered over any word in any window the dictionary would pop up. Or the mouse pointer would shift to the right or left a few centimetres, or the launchpad would appear as I was clicking on something...

VERY ANNOYING...

I downloaded AVG Anti virus and let it run for a few hours. I had remembered using the free AVG on windows 15 or so years ago when I was still a win32 developer...

It found a trojan horse Generic13_c.APBT in

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail\ Downloads/4796DD75-31D2-47A9-B051-E3E479BFC433/swearing_email.doc

I had never opened this email in Apple mail as Google had already labeled it as spam and I had deleted it. At least I don't think I opened the email...

Anyway, AVG quarantined the file and the problems seem to have gone away..

I hope it has anyway...

THANK YOU! - you are so helpful and awesome for solving and writing this response! You're extremely helpful and this was a great help! 🙂

Great!!! Thank you!! this problem has been so irritating!

I don't have a trackpad, but just the magic mouse. In System Preferences, there is no option for the mouse. Only if one has the trackpad your solution would work.