# Google maps and Firefox

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-and-firefox/317461>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 17, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-and-firefox/317461 "2005-08-17T18:33:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-and-firefox/317461/1 "2005-08-17T18:33:41Z")

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I’m getting blank Google maps with Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6. They worked fine until a few days ago. At first I thought Google was having problems, but the maps work fine in Internet Explorer.

It used to work, now it won’t. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-and-firefox/317461/2 "2005-08-17T18:50:42Z")

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google maps uses both javascript and active-x; are they both available to firefox?

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**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-and-firefox/317461/3 "2005-08-17T18:59:36Z")

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Firefox doesn’t have ActiveX, but Google maps works fine for me.

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**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-and-firefox/317461/4 "2005-08-17T19:27:49Z")

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Google Mpas works fine in Firefox. Thye do not seem to use active x, they use JavaScript and XHTML.

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-and-firefox/317461/5 "2005-08-17T19:31:10Z")

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> [@Boscibo](#):
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> I’m getting blank Google maps with Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6. They worked fine until a few days ago. At first I thought Google was having problems, but the maps work fine in Internet Explorer.
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> It used to work, now it won’t. Any ideas?

In tools-\>options-\>web features-\>advanced, did you change any options here recently? I think unchecked ‘change windows’ once and that broke Google maps. Took me a long-ass time to figure that one out, too.

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**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-and-firefox/317461/6 "2005-08-17T19:37:37Z")

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> [@Revtim](#):
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> In tools-\>options-\>web features-\>advanced, did you change any options here recently? I think unchecked ‘change windows’ once and that broke Google maps. Took me a long-ass time to figure that one out, too.

This was it! I rechecked the whole list and it worked. I was getting irritated by scripts that would take my maximized window and resize it to a smaller size, so I changed it. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-and-firefox/317461/7 "2005-08-17T19:55:14Z")

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You’re very welcome!