A couple of months ago, Google Maps on the Chrome browser lost the "Earth" view mode. I can no longer get the 3D view or zoom out to see the real time cloud cover. All it has is the 'satellite' view. At first I thought this was a bug they would eventually fix, but nothing so far.
Google maps on Firefox still has the earth view feature for some reason.
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It is still there, but you have to ensure that "Hardware Acceleration" is Enabled inside Chrome settings:
chrome://settings
- click Show Advanced Settings
- scroll down to the "System" section and check "use hardware acceleration when available"
Then, restart chrome and you should now have the "Earth" option
3I have the same problem. Window 10, Chrome 55, Intel HD4000/Radeon HD7600M. No earth mode in Google Map only Satelite when I open from Chreom (and Opera) but no problem at all when I open from Firefox, MS Edge or even oldie IE. It's very weird because when I boot from another partition (on my old HDD) with the same drivers and softwares, it works fine . I tried all suggestions but still doesn't work.
Just minute ago I found this suggestion and it solved my problem. Just enable "Override software rendering list" in Chrome.
The problem seems to be tied to WebGL being disabled in Chrome ... the graphics card may be "blacklisted". Try this:
- Type this into address bar:
chrome://flags - Enable 'Override software rendering list' ... should be at the top.
- Re-launch Chrome.
Worked for me...hope it helps.
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