Can't display google maps or msnmaps in firefox

[oldman]

Patrick May wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:07:01PM -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote:
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>>On Tuesday 01 November 2005 13:34, oldman wrote:
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>>>Hello all
>>>
>>>    Just after google maps went online I checked it out and was very
>>>impressed.  Ditto with msn maps or whatever it's called.  However I seem
>>>to have done something to cause it to stop working and I'll be darned if
>>>I can figure out what.  When displaying I get a gray box with some
>>>smaller gray boxes where the pins should be.
>>>
>>>    I have removed all extensions (but not plugins!) and this did not help.
>>>    Interesting to note that if I fire up Mozilla, both sites work fine.
>>>
>>>Anyone got an idea?
>>>
>>>Scott
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>>One thing you can check is "Edit > Preferences > Web Features" and see if the 
>>"Load Images" button is checked and the button "For the originating web site 
>>only" is un-checked.  
>>
>>HTH,
>>Tom
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>>-- 
>>Tom Taylor
>>Linux user #263467
>>Federal Way, WA
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>Check that JavaScript is allowed to change images. That one bit me
>in the rear. Firefox did the exact thing to me when I unchecked that (trying
>to avoid some really horrid Flash ads on a web site...about 4 of them would
>cause a machine to spike to 100% CPU every couple of seconds.)
>
>Patrick
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Patrick & Tom:

    Thanks for the pointers.  Turns out it was the advanced JavaScript 
option to allow JS to change images.  No idea how that got changed as I 
don't remember ever looking there, but it's nice to have back again!

Scott