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Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a new ff profile and install noscript 2.6.8.31
2. go to Google Maps
3. switch to street view
4. allow ggpht.com
5. move the view

Current result: you see only a black page. If you resize the browser window, the street image is showed up. This does not happen if noscript is disabled.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0

> 4. allow ggpht.com

I'm not seeing ggpht.com, only google.com?

Oh, wait ... (& I think I said that too... about Cascade permissions & an icon change to differentiate, remind ...)

Well I did see ggpht.com with Cascade enabled, under ...

eh, have to stop now, so disregard all that I've said...

Not seeing that here, NS 2.6.8.31rc1 with SeaMonkey 2.27a2 on Mac OS X with a Firefox 30 Linux user-agent string.

What do you mean by "move the view"?
What if ggpht.com is in your whitelist *before* trying your STR?

Scratch that. It's a Linux-specific issue.
SeaMonkey Nightly crashes rather than displaying a black screen.

(All testing done with the below fake UA string here)

Problem persists for me on Linux if I completely disable NoScript from the Add-ons Manager. So it's not related to NS.

EDIT In fact it doesn't work even on a clean profile. So it's some issue on google's end.

@barbaz: you're right. I don't know why it worked last time without noscript, maybe the bug is not always reproducible.

PS: is it my imagination, or Firefox on Linux is really buggy during the last years?

Lucas Malor wrote:@barbaz: you're right. I don't know why it worked last time without noscript, maybe the bug is not always reproducible.

PS: is it my imagination, or Firefox on Linux is really buggy during the last years?

If you think this isn't a Google issue but rather a Gecko issue, you should file a bug report on Bugzilla.

No i haven't noticed much extra Fx/SeaMonkey bugginess on Linux vs Mac OS X other than the (sometimes) need to kill the child process to get it to start, and now this.
(Oh, you're using a distribution Fx build. I've never had good experience with those.)

I'm not sure it's a fx bug for the stable version, but it's for sure for the trunk.

Well, I had some trouble lately. Many downloaded files are opened with VLC and fx crashes with some pages, as Asus support ones. I don't know if they are fx or Lubuntu bugs, and I had no time to report. Time to stop to be lazy.
Yes, I'm using the Ubuntu modified version, but for what I know changes are minimal: some preferences, the home page (that I removed), some menu item. The big changes should be to the update and plugin installation processes.

I'm on Ubuntu also. Main issue I have with the distro build is that profiles created with an official build simply won't work right if you copy/paste them to the distro build. I also had issues with search engine order getting messed up and default engines I had removed getting put back, and sometimes, some of my extensions would seem not to load on startup.
Whatever they modified, seems more than enough to break my setup. I conclude that basically, distro build is OK for really basic setups that stay on the one machine but for anything even a little complicated you need an official build.

Official Mozilla builds available here.