This problem still occurs in Firefox v25. Mozilla reported some changes to Google's API requirements that might be the issue:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=919153 To test: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples /map-geolocation and http://mozqa.com/data/firefox/geolocation/position.html First, displays grey box. Second returns: "Position acquisition timed out" ** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #919153 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=919153 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1231273 Title: Firefox does not show google geo location map Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS (Kubuntu) Linux step3 3.2.0-53-generic #81-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 22 21:01:03 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 Firefox 24.0 Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical 1-0 When browsing the URL https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/map-geolocation the map is not displayed as in other browsers on the same system. This happens also when using a fresh profile, all settings in about:config are set to standard values, all extensions and plugins are disabled. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1231273/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
