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sambul95
Iron Contributor
May 25, 2019

Broken Websites

Let's dedicate this thread to websites, which exhibit unusual behavior in Edge Insider. They either don't open or work as expected, or cause high CPU and/or GPU load when in focus.    One can check...
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sambul95
Iron Contributor
May 25, 2019

sambul95 

 

One popular website to report used by 5 mln folks per month is https://earth.google.com/web/. It doesn't work at all to navigate the earth. Here's the screenshot. I wonder if Edge Insider team can fix that?

 

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Anonymous
May 26, 2019

sambul95 

 

I think Google Earth will only work in Chrome.  I know it doesn't work in Firefox or IE.   This is from their website:

 

With Google Earth for Chrome, fly anywhere in seconds and explore hundreds of 3D cities right in your browser. Roll the dice to discover someplace new, take a guided tour with Voyager, and measure distances and areas. Coming soon to more browsers.

 

Bill

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    sambul95
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    May 26, 2019

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    Nope, the reason it doesn't work in Edge Preview is the Edge devs removed Google Portable Native Client plugin from Chromium. Its in the installer package, but not registered properly, despite they still use the same Pepper API with Flash Player.

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      Anonymous
      May 26, 2019

      sambul95 

       

      I don't doubt what you are saying.  I just got the impression from other sources that Google Earth only works in Chrome.  Besides IE and Firefox not supporting Google Earth, Vivaldi also doesn't.  It is also a chromium based browser.  From ghacks.net:

       

      Google makes the new Google Earth Chrome exclusive

      by https://www.ghacks.net/author/martin/ on April 18, 2017 in https://www.ghacks.net/category/companies/, https://www.ghacks.net/category/google/ - Last Update: January 04, 2018
       

      Google https://www.google.com/earth/ a redesigned version of Google Earth today which, unlike its predecessor, is a web application. While that sounds good on first glance, as you may run Google Earth now without having to install software or an application first, the new version is limited to Google Chrome currently on the desktop.

      The desktop version of Google Earth is still https://www.google.com/earth/desktop/ on the official site though, so that non-Chrome users may download and use the application in its older form.

      Google https://blog.google/products/earth/welcome-home-new-google-earth/ that the new Google Earth works in Chrome on the desktop only. While that means support on Chromebook devices, and also better support on Linux, it also means that the new version of Google Earth is not available for users who run non-Chrome desktop browsers.

      https://www.ghacks.net/2016/03/21/firefox-47-tab-based-temporary-user-agent-switching/ does not help right now to get the new Google Earth to work in other browsers.

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        Rixster
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        Jun 02, 2019

        Google Chrome is becoming more and more IE6 ("works best with....") 

         

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