{"id":254,"date":"2010-07-15T21:38:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T20:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2010-07-15T21:38:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T20:38:48","slug":"dysfunctional-google-street-view-on-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2010\/dysfunctional-google-street-view-on-firefox","title":{"rendered":"Dysfunctional Google Street View on Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was using Firefox 3.5.x – don’t remember the version – and at one point noticed Google Street View didn’t work correctly.\u00c2\u00a0 I was able to drag the orange figure onto the map, and then there it would stand, like a human traffic cone, and nothing happened.\u00c2\u00a0 No photos.<\/p>\n

So I first installed 3.6.6, figuring there was a problem with Firefox that had been fixed in a more recent version.\u00c2\u00a0 No success.<\/p>\n

Then I googled “street view doesn’t work in firefox” and found this site<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 They suggested upgrading my flash player, which I did.\u00c2\u00a0 The installation completed 100%, but no success with Street View.Out of ideas, I switched to IE and tried Street View.\u00c2\u00a0 It told me that the flash player was outdated and needed an update, so I upgraded here, too.\u00c2\u00a0 And ta-dah, it worked!<\/p>\n

So, back to Firefox: I went to the Flash download page again and found instructions for downloading and installing with Firefox.\u00c2\u00a0 I added www.adobe.com to the list of sites that are allowed to install add-ons (Tools\/Options\/Security) and for good measure to the list of sites that are allowed to generate Popups (Tools\/Options\/Applications).\u00c2\u00a0 The installation looked a bit different, but it displayed the same message of a successful installation and again did nothing to fix Street View.<\/p>\n

Aha, I thought, I bet it’s my Flashblock<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I disabled it, restarted Firefox, and ta-dah, Street View works!\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know who (Google, Adobe, Mozilla, or the Flashblock programmers) is to blame, but Flashblock 1.5.13 seems not to work right with the current Street View and Firefox and Flash 10.1.<\/p>\n

So, although I liked it (especially for youtube playback control), I’m turning Flashblock off for now, but if I find I don’t use Street View enough, and the instant playback on youtube bugs me enough, I’ll turn it back on.\u00c2\u00a0 I wish they’d fix this situation, though, so that for Street View I’d get the same “play” symbol Flashblock usually displays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was using Firefox 3.5.x – don’t remember the version – and at one point noticed Google Street View didn’t work correctly.\u00c2\u00a0 I was able to drag the orange figure onto the map, and then there it would stand, like a human traffic cone, and nothing happened.\u00c2\u00a0 No photos. So I first installed 3.6.6, figuring there was a problem with Firefox that had been fixed in a more recent version.\u00c2\u00a0 No success. Then I googled “street view doesn’t work in firefox” and found this site.\u00c2\u00a0 They suggested upgrading my flash player, which I did.\u00c2\u00a0 The installation completed 100%, but no success with Street View.Out of ideas, I switched to IE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}