no maps in firefox (again)

BCarey · 10-11-2006, 10:41 AM

I no longer have maps in firefox again. I do have "Load Images" checked and "From originating site only" unchecked.

Maps display fine in seamonkey, opera and konqueror.

Does anyone have any ideas for me?

Thanks,
Brian

Firefox 1.5.0.7
Slackware 11.0
Linux 2.6.17

acid_kewpie · 10-11-2006, 10:50 AM

maps? what maps?

BCarey · 10-11-2006, 03:10 PM

Google maps and mapquest maps.

dracolich · 10-11-2006, 04:58 PM

Do you have any extensions installed like AdBlock or NoScript that might block content? Also it's possible, I don't know about these particular sites, that the site's content depends on browser identification. A couple times I've had to set Firefox to identify itself as IE to view specific content.

BCarey · 10-11-2006, 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dracolich

Do you have any extensions installed like AdBlock or NoScript that might block content?

I didn't install any myself. How can I check this?

Quote:

Originally Posted by dracolich

Also it's possible, I don't know about these particular sites, that the site's content depends on browser identification. A couple times I've had to set Firefox to identify itself as IE to view specific content.

I can't find how to set this. I'd love to be able to do this for other reasons even if it does not solve this particular problem.

Thanks,
Brian

osor · 10-11-2006, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

I didn't install any myself. How can I check this?

I can't find how to set this. I'd love to be able to do this for other reasons even if it does not solve this particular problem.

Thanks,
Brian

Tools -> Extensions will tell you what extensions are installed, let you disable them, or even remove them permanently.

To set a lot of things in mozilla & friends, use about:config (there are probably other things out there to do this one specific thing, but there is a lot you can explore in about:config). For changing the identification, look for something called useragent.

BCarey · 10-12-2006, 04:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dracolich

Do you have any extensions installed like AdBlock or NoScript that might block content?

No.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dracolich

Also it's possible, I don't know about these particular sites, that the site's content depends on browser identification. A couple times I've had to set Firefox to identify itself as IE to view specific content.

This can't be it, because Firefox on my desktop computer works fine.

Any other ideas?

Brian

PingFloyd · 10-12-2006, 07:14 PM

I just ran mapquest on my firefox and the maps came up ok for me. Make sure you have cookies and javascript enabled. Then try again. Mapquest for instance, like many sites, many of their features won't work with those setting disabled.

I tested it with javascript disabled and the map won't come up, but if I enable it, it comes up just fine.

BCarey · 10-12-2006, 10:12 PM

Cookies and JavaScript are both enabled.

SkipHuffman · 10-19-2006, 11:05 AM

On my wifes machine/identity.

All googlemaps show up as grey boxes. If I su to my logon it works fine. I have disabled all extensions, cleared all google cookies, dumped the cache, and checked to see that images are allowed, both local and not.

She is not thrilled and thinks I am messing with her.

sylvester_0 · 10-19-2006, 12:04 PM

Su to your logon? I don't quite follow what you're saying here because if you're logged in as someone else, su to yourself, then run a command it'll use the .mozilla directory under your home directory...

Try running

Code:

mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla_old

and see if it works. You can get your bookmarks back by moving ~/.mozilla_old/xxxxx.default/bookmarks.html (where xxxx is the only dir in there) to your ~/.mozilla directory.

SkipHuffman · 10-19-2006, 12:38 PM

broken post

SkipHuffman · 10-19-2006, 12:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sylvester_0

Su to your logon?

This process:

josie@cutie $ firefox maps.google.com
josie@cutie $ su skip
password:*******
skip@cutie $ firefox maps.google.com
skip@cutie $ exit
josie@cutie $ firefox maps.google.com

The maps are visible from command four, but not from command one and command six.

I will try moving her .mozilla directory later.

sylvester_0 · 10-19-2006, 12:43 PM

Ok I see then there's probably something messed up with her .mozilla directory. I'm 99% sure that'll fix your problem.

SkipHuffman · 10-19-2006, 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sylvester_0

Ok I see then there's probably something messed up with her .mozilla directory. I'm 99% sure that'll fix your problem.

Thanks, I will give that a try. But she is on livejournal right now, so I don't think I can get to her machine for a couple hours.