This makes me physically ill.

Cars are the only weapon in the world where you could injure or kill a few dozen people “by accident” and be let off without being held responsible. And it happens all the time.

Even when someone is charged with anything, it never accounts for a loss of human life. It’s always some BS traffic violation that might as well be a parking violation.

Maybe that’s why you don’t have problems with most of sites from Europe?!?

That’s an interesting observation. I’m not sure, since I’m in Canada.

Thank you. Such a shame. I don’t see the point of someone taking time to vandalize a platform like OSM. Such a waste of human life, and other people’s time.

Holy hell.

I’ve seen the odd case of vandalism affecting a few data points here and there. But this looks like millions of data points were affected.

I use FF as my primary browser on my desktop, laptop, and mobile devices.

As much as I love and support FF and the Mozilla Foundation, I find that some websites simply need a Chromium-based browser to function properly. It’s frustrating as hell.

I wonder how many people tried FF, had their favourite site stop working, and then switched back to Chrome.

Good. Hopefully this will put an end to idiot parents who illegally park in the bike lanes near schools, putting cyclists and kids at risk, just because they are lazy AF.

+1 for Floccus. Been using it for a least a year. 👌

Edge was a bit choppy when zooming in, but nothing bad when panning…

That’s interesting. Edge (and Opera) in G Earth are 100% smooth at my monitor’s max refresh rate (60 fps).

Thanks for that. I’ve got a Framework laptop, and just looking at their support community, it seems like Firefox has not been playing well for quite a few people, with many citing “choppy” performance, so I’ll have a look what they’ve discovered.

I have run both Google Earth and Google Maps in Firefox on Windows since forever and it has allways been fine.

Yes, they both work (no issues with Gmaps from what I recall), but try Google Earth on Edge and tell me if it’s any smoother. To me, it’s so dramatic that you simply can’t ignore it.

Yes, GPU is active and even confirmed through the Windows Task Manager. I’ve added more details to my OP.

I’ve confirmed that the GPU is being used (through Firefox and through the Windows Task Manager). On a fresh FF profile, I’m getting the same slow performance out of Google Earth.

I’m putting more details in my OP.

I know, I’ve tried Linux. Many times. I tend to break linux without any way for me to fix it. So I always come back to Windows.

It’s like an abusive relationship that I can’t leave. LOL

You can check if hardware acceleration is working by going to “about:support” and checking the “composite” line. If it says Web Render (without software written there in brackets) it’s hardware accelerated. I

It does say “Compositing WebRender”.

I’m going to try a fresh profile to see if that happens. I do have the same issue on multiple PCs (all windows), so I must be doing something that’s creating this issue on all my installs.

Thanks for trying! Google Earth is running my max refresh rate in Edge, but it’s painfully slow on FF. If it’s working for you, then I know there’s hope!

I’m on Windows, unfortunately, so that’s one variable I can’t change. I’ll consider that config, though!

Other thing could be how much you use each browser, how many tabs you have open when you tried them? How many extensions? What other programs did you have open?

It doesn’t make a difference, even with a barebone configuration. That’s kind of why I have Librewolf available, so it’s separate from the config I have with my main FF profile.

I was afraid that might be the case. It certainly seems like that. I’m blown away by how much faster Edge is compared to FF. Google Earth seems to run at 60fps (max refresh rate of my monitor) in Edge and like 15fps in FF… if I’m lucky.

That’s an out-of-the-box idea, but I just tried it with the Windows/Edge and then Windows/Chrome setting, and Google earth spit up an error about the browser not being compatible, but I can try anyway (didn’t load), or it simply didn’t load (forever loading).

That would have been an interesting “fix”!

“Therefore,” concluded the report, “cars continue to be the main contributor to changes in overall motor vehicle traffic.”

When you think about it for a second, the worst traffic congestion you’ll find are in places where only cars and trucks are allowed to be: highways.

Yes, you get traffic congestion in cities, too, but hours long congestion only happens in places where cyclists aren’t.

If a [insert ridiculous number] lane highway at [insert any speed] still results in bumper to bumper traffic, perhaps really should be blaming cars for being the least efficient, traffic-inducing, time-wasting form of transportation available.

I’ve got music CDs from the early 90s that still work fine. Even CD-r and rw discs from the late 90s and early 2000s work.

Hell, I recently found a stack of 3.5" diskettes that still work.

The only time I’ve had an issue with media is when it’s been physically abused (I.e. scratched or damaged).