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Bing Maps is very slow lately on versions of Firefox 70 onwards.

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Bing maps is very slow at loading tiles when set to any of the map modes. I've only noticed this in the last couple of months. It works fine on other browsers and I've tried it on different computers.

Bing maps is very slow at loading tiles when set to any of the map modes. I've only noticed this in the last couple of months. It works fine on other browsers and I've tried it on different computers.

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Many site issues can be caused by corrupt cookies or cache.

Warning ! ! This will log you out of sites you're logged in to. You may also lose any settings for that website.

If there is still a problem, Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} by holding down the <Shift> (Mac=Options) key, and then starting Firefox.

A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Did this help?

While you are in safe mode;

Try disabling graphics hardware acceleration in Firefox. Since this feature was added to Firefox it has gradually improved but there are still a few glitches.

How to disable Hardware Acceleration {web link}


https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-slow-how-make-it-faster

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-many-cpu-resources-how-fix

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-hangs-or-not-responding

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-takes-long-time-start-up

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Thanks for the reply.

I had previously tried removing cookies, clearing the cache, running in safe mode with no addons running. Reinstalling Firefox and creating a new profile.

I also tried it with no hardware acceleration and even tried a different graphics driver, different window manager and compositor.

As I say it happens on another computer as well which is running version 70.0 It doesn't seem to be graphical but seems to be a long time to load the map data. Could Microsoft be doing something untoward?

It works fine in Chromium on the same PC. I will see if I can install a non Mint version of Firefox. Maybe that's the problem?

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Thanks but I'll need to do some research on how to install it for Linux without using the package manager.

It might mess up my system so I need to try it in a virtual machine. Just to get bing maps working that will be a lot of effort rather than just use chromium for that one site but I will look into it. Palemoon does it too so I think it's something fundamental with either Bing maps or Mozilla. Thanks again

Modified by user2243707

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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux Install Firefox on Linux This article will show you how to install Firefox on Linux.

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Cheers. I'm a bit short on disk space to try that in a virtual machine but I will move some stuff around so I can. Loathed to change anything because I'm not Linux savvy enough to fix something I ruin.

Modified by user2243707

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Move things you don't use, and very large files, to an external hard drive.

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You can check the Web Console and Network Monitor for possible causes of this slow loading.

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The Network monitor is showing that the tiles are sometimes taking 6000-10000ms each to load but I think they all start at the same time then finish one after another as the time is longer for each one.

cor-el said

You can check the Web Console and Network Monitor for possible causes of this slow loading.

Modified by user2243707