Disabling hardware acceleration resolved issue with Google Maps not loading in Firefox 19
For the last few days noticed that I could no longer use Googlemaps in Firefox 19. The page would completely load then if I typed a single character into the search box for google maps it would bring up the "Still loading" text and do nothing.
Followed a couple links on the Mozilla support page and started Firefox in safemode. Maps was speedy and worked fine in safemode. I started again without safemode and tried the simplest step to see if it would resolve the issue and disabled hardware acceleration. All of a sudden maps worked again. The strange part is when I re-enabled hardware acceleration maps continued to work (go figure, makes no sense to me).
Just wanted to post my experience for others who may be having a similar problem.
System is Windows XP 32bit
Cheers.
Opaite Mbohovái (1)
Thanks for posting your solution. For other users who may find this thread and need more information, see:
Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems ... under Turn off hardware acceleration.