752532 - Panning google maps in landscape flickers wildly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

Tested on a Galaxy Nexus with the May 7 nightly.

STR:
1. Load maps.google.com in portrait
2. Rotate to landscape
3. Pan the map

Expected results:
smooth panning

Actual results:
map pans, but the entire page flickers white while doing so. Occasionally the page stays white when panning stop.s

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Seeing as how we might not get a mobile friendly Google Maps for who knows how long, IMO we should fix any issues with high-ranking and highly viewed sites.

Comment 2

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

I'm not convinced that we will have a large audience for Google maps as a Web app on Android as there is already a native Google maps app that comes with the platform. What is our maps story on B2G?

Comment 3

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

(In reply to Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] from comment #2)
> I'm not convinced that we will have a large audience for Google maps as a
> Web app on Android as there is already a native Google maps app that comes
> with the platform. What is our maps story on B2G?

Chris Lee - Can you answer this question?

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

We should be getting the mobile version. bug 742125. Does this happen if we use Phony and the Nexus one UA?

Comment 5

[Chris Lee [:clee]]

(In reply to Jason Smith [:jsmith] from comment #3)
> (In reply to Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] from comment #2)
> > I'm not convinced that we will have a large audience for Google maps as a
> > Web app on Android as there is already a native Google maps app that comes
> > with the platform. What is our maps story on B2G?
> 
> Chris Lee - Can you answer this question?

For B2G v1, we will not have a default Maps web app.  We will partner with 3rd parties to offer maps functionality to users.  

However, we should look into this bug if we think it's related to a bigger issue with Gecko.

Comment 6

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

This isn't happening any more with the mobile maps interface google serves us. Feel free to reopen if you feel this needs to stay open for whatever reason.