Web Developer / Designer Glasgow, Scotland - Marc Love

Jul 2

Google maps API waiting for gg.google.com

Posted in: Blog, general |

I came across a problem today with the Google Maps API failing to load in Firefox. All I was getting was a message in the status bar of the browser saying “Waiting for gg.google.com”

After a bit of messing about I discovered that if you have Firebug installed, disabling support for JavaScript debugging solves the problem.

6 Comments to “Google maps API waiting for gg.google.com”

• Sean Molam says:

  July 20, 2009 at 6:44 am

  Thanks mate, saved us a huge amount of stuffing around had this a few times before trying to search to see if it was something we were doing.
• JBH says:

  July 22, 2009 at 4:45 am

  Much love, saved me a couple of hours of debugging. Thanks.
• Leo says:

  August 20, 2009 at 3:05 pm

  Thanks man! saved me hours!
• Greg says:

  August 25, 2009 at 10:37 am

  Thanks for this. Nice easy solution to a very silly problem! Cheers. Greg
• Michal says:

  August 25, 2009 at 11:05 am

  Well, I don’t have any firebug installed on my Firefox and this message is displayed. Also I don’t have any maps on this page! It is PHP script to delete images from gallery. However I’m using Maps on other page on this server so the javascript for google maps is loaded. I don’t have clue how my PHP script is connected with javascript but it looks pretty dodgy to me.
• Marc says:

  August 25, 2009 at 11:09 am

  Hi Michal,

  Do you have a link to the page that is causing you the problems?