[shellfishgene]

Has anyone else noticed that Google maps has lately become a lot worse on Firefox compared to Chrome? Zooming is less smooth, even with the whole map flashing in between levels, and in satellite view the tiles seem to load a lot slower.

[serial_dev]

We haven't, and I hope you are not implying that one of the largest tech companies in the world would take advantage of their complete dominance of the internet to weaken their remaining competition.

In all seriousness, it's not a new issue, if you search for it, there are complaints about it going back years.

Now, I'm sure there is a "non-evil" explanation, such as "oh we just test more with Chrome so we optimized for that, but we will try to convince an intern to install Firefox", "Chrome is just better", "Firefox doesn't have x and y features, so it's slow, but it they implement it, it will be fast, too"...

... and there are the "evil" explanation, "let's make one of our most popular products slightly slower on a competing browser to nudge people into using our browser".

[londons_explore]

It shouldn't flash. You probably have a bad webgl implementation. New graphics drivers?

[LuisAPI]

I second GP, it does flash exclusively on Firefox. Google Maps doesn't load terribly on any Chromium-based browser (Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, Brave...)