Google Streetview not working in Safari 5.0.1

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Google Streetview not working in Safari 5.0.1

Has anyone else had problems with Google Streetview since upgrading to Safari 5.0.1? It's ridiculously slow and I end up spending ages just staring at that little multicoloured spinny thing. I used to be able to 'walk' around the streets, now it takes entire minutes just for one screen to load. I tried it in Firefox and it works fine (but I don't like or want to use Firefox!).

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Aug 16, 2010 8:51 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 16, 2010 11:41 AM in response to jw84

HI,

Empty the Safari cache more often. Safari/Empty Cache.

And from the Safari Menu Bar click Safari/Preferences then select the Security tab. Click "Show Cookies"

Delete all Google related cookies.

Relaunch Safari.

I use Google / street view on v10.6.4 with Safari 5.0.1 without a problem, so hopefully this will help.

Carolyn 🙂

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Aug 16, 2010 12:29 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Thanks for the tips, but sadly it doesn't solve the problem - that's just stuff I do as standard a few times a day anyway (I'm obsessive about 'cleaning' my Macbook!). I have no idea why it doesn't work for me, then - it worked fine, then I installed the newest version of Safari and it doesn't work anymore. It's driving me so mad I think I'm going to go back to the last version of Safari until the next update comes out and see if it works then.

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Answer 3

Aug 16, 2010 12:32 PM in response to jw84

I can use Google street view on v10.5.8 Safari 5 also.

If you want to revert to Safari 4.0.5, go here for instructions.

http://appletoolbox.com/2010/06/downgrade-from-safari-5-0-to-safari-4-0-5/

(I'm obsessive about 'cleaning' my Macbook!)

You may have inadvertently "cleaned" out necessary system files.

How are you doing this cleaning?

🙂

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Answer 4

Aug 19, 2010 5:06 AM in response to jw84

Do you have any Safari Extensions installed? I've been having this same problem, but I turned the extensions off and now Google Maps is as fast as it used to be. Or, your extensions might need updates. I noticed my AdBlock extension needed an update, and once I updated it, Google Maps works fine again.

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Aug 21, 2010 2:10 PM in response to jw84

Nope, won't have deleted anything necessary - or at least I hope not! I just mean I always clean out cookies, histories, caches etc at least a few times a day.

I think it must be the browser extensions. I do have some installed - and upon checking, one of them is Google-related - when the **** did I install that?! I'll try disabling it, I bet that's been the problem all along! I also have Ad-Block so I'll see if that needs updating.

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Answer 6

Aug 23, 2010 11:43 PM in response to jw84

I had the same problem. If you have click2flash installed, be sure to add maps.google.com to your whitelist.
That solved the problem for me.

StreetView is implemented in Flash.

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