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System hang after sometimes scrolling the map and zoom in-out. I tried different browser, chrome and firefox and the result was the same. I need to hardly shutdown my system and restart ubuntu to fix it.

Husni
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  • This can have many reasons. Most probably it's a bug in your graphics driver (if I'm not mistaken, Google Maps uses WebGL), but it could also be CPU overheating, a broken memory module,.... You can try to disable WebGL in Firefox to find out if it's a graphics driver issue: Go to the address "about:config" and set webgl.disabled to true. If this "solves" the problem for you, you might want to switch to a different graphics driver and enable WebGL again. To find out if your RAM is OK, get the GRUB menu to show up on boot, launch memtest86 and let it run a few hours. – soulsource Sep 12 '13 at 12:03
  • Are you using the FireBug add-on? I found myself that Google Maps was impossible to use when FireBug was enabled on that page (which made debugging my own site really difficult). – IQAndreas Oct 21 '13 at 23:58
  • I'm having the same problem with google chrome only. Firefox seems to be working fine. I checked my ram and it is fine. Not only Google Maps freezes my Ubuntu box, but some youtube videos do too. A hard reset is the only way get my system back and running. – Julio Mar 29 '14 at 07:47

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I confirm that:

1) swapoff -a

2) removing /swap.img from /etc/fstab

3) adding a swap partition to /etf/fstab: partitionid none swap sw 0 0

4) swapon -a

solve the problem!

This is a nasty bug! (IMO)

Garfield
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I had this exact issue and fixed it by creating a swap partition, a small detail that I completely forgot when doing my manual installation.

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