Google Maps stuck at loading
Problem: After adding the Google Maps API v3 to a website, the map page, in Firefox , displays a strange behavior. When the request comes from another page, most times, the map page keeps loading the Google Maps API ("retrieving data from maps.googleapis.com ") but it never actually ends. Follow-up scripts end up never being loaded. If we stop the page load and refresh it (F5 or CTRL+F5), the page loads correctly. Solution: There are lots of posts already with people trying to figure this out. Some are recomending changing the google script call to asynchronous: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14233350/infinite-load-on-firefox-transferring-data-from-maps-googleapis-com https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/tutorial#Loading_the_Maps_API However, for me, I just needed to move from $( document ). ready (function () { initializeMap(); ...