My own Google Map icons are not visible in Firefox 8

[keith13]

I have many Google Maps on my website( http://walkinginfrance.info/)and they contain both default Google icons and my own icons, each with their own URLs. They work correctly in all other browsers, and Firefox up to FF7.

However, yesterday I loaded Firefox 8. In FF8 the Google default icons are still visible but my own icons are now invisible, but their placeholders are still there. They are still visible in all other browsers. Also, if I now try and add one of my icons to a map, the process seems to work correctly, including a placemark name appearing, but the icon is invisible. The invisible icon is definitely there because you can click the placemark and be taken to the correct position on the map for editing, but the icon is not visible.

To see the problem you need to look at a map in my website eg http://walkinginfrance.info/?page_id=7886 in both FF8 and another browser to see that the Google default icons are visible in both browsers, but my own icons ("Start" and "Finish" in this case) are not visible in FF8.

[andi.martin]

We have the same issue on one of our pages.. http://ourmothertongues.org/LanguageMaps.aspx - worked in every other browser including FF7.

If anyone finds a fix, please let me know!

Thanks.

[WaltS48]

We have the same issue on one of our pages.. http://ourmothertongues.org/LanguageMaps.aspx - worked in every other browser including FF7.

If anyone finds a fix, please let me know!

Thanks.

Reloading the page worked for me. Don't know why it didn't render on first load.

[guillaumeDiadao]

Hi

I have the same problem with my map... on firefox 9.0 :s
Anyone find a tips to fix this bug ?

Thanks

[ki11ua]

Same problem here!
Please fix this problem asap, I've embedded thousands of maps with custom icons!

[Mordwin]

Maybe something to do with this?

[guillaumeDiadao]

Maybe something to do with this?

Thanks to share....
... every body see the problem but there's no solution to fix it yet

[trolly]

Read https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702578#c2 and fix the cross-origin headers on your server.

[guillaumeDiadao]

Thanks trolly ! it works now : with a htaccess file in the same location than my icons.
Great !

[jscher2000]

So was the solution to add a header such as (from: HTTP access control - MDN):

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Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

If so, what is the syntax for adding that to .htaccess?

Edit: Even if you used a different solution, could you post it?

[andi.martin]

Trolly, thanks for your input. That's sorted it.

[lookatthosemoose]

Also, see: http://enable-cors.org for more information regarding how to enable cross origin resource sharing for different servers.

[keith13]

Thanks. I followed the instructions in http://enable-cors.org and got my icons back!

[nico.mollet]

Alright FF8 enabled CORS. What about file sharing services like Dropbox where we can't upload .htaccess files to change the "Access-Control-Allow-Origin".

Now Dropbox is pretty useless on Firefox8, should Dropbox change his policy just for Firefox8 ?

[jscher2000]

Now Dropbox is pretty useless on Firefox8, should Dropbox change his policy just for Firefox8 ?

Could you describe the scenario where Dropbox doesn't work?