I hate the new street view. It wont let me drag the guy onto the road anymore. Then it freezes on my computer. I have to search for everything. THe new Google Maps is way worse than the old version. BRING THE OLD VERSION BACK!!!
I don't necessarily mind not being able to drag the guy. Instead you click on him and then you just click on the road where you want to see the Street View image. That seems more straightforward than dragging (especially if I'm using my touchpad rather than the mouse!).
Don't mean to start a threadjack, but since there's been some discussion of browsers, this seems as good a place as any to raise the browser issue. I've used Firefox for years. There's no question it can sometimes be a bit of a memory hog and that its tendency to slow down seemingly at random, followed by the title bar briefly saying "Not Responding" (it goes away if you wait it out), can be damn annoying. (I have not yet downloaded Firefox 27 despite the browser's repeated pleas that I do so.) I hear people talk about Google Chrome as the main alternative. Can someone address what advantages and disadvantages it may have compared with Firefox? Certainly you hear a lot in the media about privacy issues with respect to Google in general, so I wonder to what extent Chrome might suffer from the same. I do not have an Android-based phone or tablet, so any advantages relating to that particular issue wouldn't be relevant. I run various Flash- and ad-blocking Firefox plugins and extensions and I'd want to be able to do something similar in any other browser I might try (in particular, I hate the way ESPN tries to force-load loud video when you open their site).
Thanks in advance. Moderators, if you think this belongs in "Off-Topic" obviously it's your call to move it; I simply thought it fit in with some of the discussion earlier in this thread, especially after someone suggested using Chrome.
So I experienced that browser crashing on Firefox that everyone referred to...
I have a gaming laptop, and there is no reason that when Firefox hangs because of Google Maps, I have to watch as my computer slows down to a crawl until Firefox decides to end the process itself, because the task manager refuses to open.
My PC has been slow in general today. I'm trying to write a chapter of a publication I'm working on and it frustrates me to no end when there's a few-second delay after I hit a key before the character appears. Almost impossible to type that way. I think I'll run virus and malware scans when I break for lunch. I've only tried to run Google Maps once so far (in response to the post from US 41 quoted above), although presently I have open Firefox with five browser tabs, three MS Word windows, Mozilla Thunderbird for e-mail, iTunes, and two file manager windows. I have 16 GB of RAM and a 2.9-GHz quad-core processor, but some days I just want to hurl the thing out the window.