Bing maps in linux Mint

[cinelli]

I wonder if anyone can help with a problem I have had for a few months. I am using chromium in linux Mint cinnamon version 20 which is up to date.

When using Bing Maps the map does not display properly. If I zoom in or out or attempt to move the map, place names appears momentarily but other details remain missing. I get a similar effect with another of my favourite sites, the map in bustimes.org. Little buses appear but the roads on which they run are missing.

I have tried creating a brand new user and starting from scratch and get the same effect. I have also tried clearing the cache. Using Bing maps or bustimes in the firefox browser works so this is a reliable workaround but it is clearly more convenient to do everything from the same browser. My version of chromium is

Version 109.0.5384.0 (Developer Build) Built on Ubuntu 20.04, running on LinuxMint 20 (64-bit)

which is the standard version from the repository.

Any ideas, please?

Cinelli

[GeoffF100]

I have just checked. Bing Maps is fine for me with both Firefox and Chromium on Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria. Chromium is the Flatpak version.

[Urbandreamer]

Sorry but it works fine for me too in firefox.

I did wonder if it could be a display manager issue. I believe that there have been issues with both X11 and Wayland in the past, I'm running mint 20.3 on this machine (Lenovo X230).

It could also be an issue with how well Linux talks to your graphics card. There have been long standing issues with Nvidia.

[Infrasonic]

As the issue is with Chromium (not Firefox...) how about trying a different chromium variant as an A/B.
The obvious one is MS Edge - which has a Linux version available.

[ReformedCharacter]

There are some less apparent settings in Chromium which may be worth trying, on my version there are a couple that look to be rendering related. You can find these by entering: chrome://flags into the address bar and pressing enter. I have two, that might be worth enabling\disabling:

- Override software rendering list
- Accelerated 2D canvas

Easy enough to reverse any changes if they don't work.

RC

[GeoffF100]

I have not played with my Chromium settings. My Chromium version is 120.0.6099.71 (Official Build) (64-bit). If you install the Flatpak, it should update itself independently of your Mint packages (or that is my understanding anyway). I installed the Flatpak to avoid a different problem with the version in the Mint repository that appeared after an update.

[cinelli]

Thank you for the suggestions. The changes to chrome://flags made no difference, unfortunately. I have tried installing the flatpak version of chromium (which needs a huge amount of disk space, > 2G) but this returned an error. I will investigate this later.

Thanks all.

Cinelli

[GeoffF100]

It seems that there is a Mint bug that causes it to report crazy Flatpak sizes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/co ... isk_space/

Here are the correct numbers:

https://flathub.org/apps/org.chromium.Chromium

[cinelli]

I have come back to this after a period of illness. I followed Infrasonic’s advice and installed Edge. This was straightforward – download the file microsoft-edge-stable_120.0.2210.91-1_amd64.deb and double-click. Success. Moreover copying across my Bookmarks file from
~/.config/chromium/Default/Bookmarks to ~/.config/microsoft-edge/Default/Bookmarks
also worked seamlessly. Edge displays my two websites Bing maps and bustimes.org without error.

So a great success and no bad thing having an alternative browser. Thanks to all.

Cinelli

[Infrasonic]

If you have any online Microsoft services like MS365 you'll probably find you'll get less issues by running Edge there as well.