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Excellent, this actually makes Maps usable for me. I don't have flash installed which seems to break place searching on standard Google Maps but not the Lite version.

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Google Maps doesn't use Flash at all.

I do have Flash installed but it's configured as "Ask to activate". Search for places on the full Google Maps works and it doesn't ask me about Flash.

I may be mistaken about the cause. I'm on Linux and use FF without flash. Chromium with in-built flash (or flash emulation?) handles maps fine.

I'm also on Linux and Firefox. Ubuntu 16.04. I don't remember if Flash came with FF or I installed it. Anyway it doesn't run unless I OK it.

This would point at the interaction with FF being the issue, maybe disable all extensions first to make sure they are not messing up with something?

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