Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Pause your Web History- break Google Maps

For a few days Google Maps stopped working for me. I first noticed it while trying to get directions to the airport. I use Safari, and the Maps page would just sit there with "Still loading..." forever. I thought it was a momentary glitch, but 2 days later it was still happening. I fired up Chrome on the same machine, which worked fine. Back in Safari, I tried clearing the cache, restarting the browser, etc. all to no avail.

Today I figured it out- I had paused my web history some time back. On a whim I tried unpausing it, and lo and behold, Maps now works again in Safari. Pausing it again results in the same breakage, so the problem is repeatable. Having to enable Web History to use Maps is a little unsettling, but this sounds like a bug.


10 comments:

  1. My history has been disabled for years and maps works fine. Strange bug.

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  3. Having to enable Web History to use Maps is a little unsettling, but this sounds like a bug.

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  4. The actual thing happens when pausing it again results in the same breakage, so the problem is repeatable.So I am not capable of soving it so far.

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  5. Having to enable Web History to use Maps is a little unsettling, but this sounds like a bug. HCG Blue Drops, the Faster and Natural way to lose weight...

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  6. The idea is simple: create a list of English words, and assign a five digit number to each of them.

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  7. Pausing it again results in the same breakage, so the problem is repeatable.

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  8. google maps is useful but i enjoy more google earth because it have the 3D buildings

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