Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> Cameron Hutchison wrote:
>> When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany
>> or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle
>> button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This only happens for me
>> with Debian. On my systems with Ubuntu, google maps works as expected.
>>
>> Does anyone know why this may be happening?
>
> It is a problem with the user agent setting. Google maps does not seem
> to realize that iceweasel and firefox are practically the same. You can
> work around this by visiting about:config in iceweasel and replacing
> iceweasel with firefox for the general.useragent.extra.firefox string.
>
The little triangle is so cool! Thanks to Cameron for noticing such a nice
little thing. I did not even realize there was a triangle to begin with on
other OSes. Thanks to Raj Kiran for the solution.
raju
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