Google released the new Google Maps.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work on Firefox 21.0 on Ubuntu 13.04.
When I open the page, Firefox just draws white grids on the screen. Dragging or clicking the screen does not cause anything. However, when the screen is resized, Firefox draws the current status of the map.
I tried opening it on the Safe Mode, but the result was the same.
Does anybody know how to work it on Firefox?
Note that it works flawlessly on Chrome. In addition, it also works on Firefox on Windows 8, on the same machine.
My machine's graphics card is the following:
$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
I solved the problem.
Just open
about:config
and setwebgl.force-enabled
totrue
.OpenGL seems to have been disabled somehow.
(June 2, 2013) Update:
The above answer no longer works for me. (Or that was my misunderstanding...)
Use Lite Mode instead.
I set
webgl.min_capability_mode
toTrue
and crashes are now history.However, note this problem in running in this mode:
Google says that if WebGL is disabled then you are required to use lite mode so I figured I'd play around with those settings.
I set
webgl.min_capability_mode
andwebgl.force-enabled
to true and now it is working for me.As mentioned above
webgl.force-enabled
being set to true on its own did not work for me.I had the same issue here and found the solution
From the Mozilla Wiki as per question OP Akihiro Harai:
For those not familiar here are the steps:
about:config
layers.acceleration.force-enabled
UPDATE: sorry but this does not 100% fix the issue! After trying all other suggestions in this thread I almost got it to work. There only one issue: Street View freezes when I try to move forward / backward in the view. Firefox does not crash and I can close the tab and open a new one, which is ok but far from ideal. If anyone else has any suggestion let us know. Thank you
I had the same problem with an NVidia graphics card. I installed the "nvidia(-313-updates)" driver instead of "nouveau". It's now working...