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I was wondering if I could use the new Google Maps. I have latest stable Chrome and Ubuntu 13.04. I am currently told that I must use lite mode. Under Chrome in Windows 8 on the same machine it works perfectly.

zzomtceo
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Disclaimer: This is not supported by Google

Google Chrome disables hardware acceleration on many GPUs by default in Linux. To check if your GPU is disabled, open chrome://gpu/ inside Chrome. Mine looks like this by default:

GPU Disabled

To forcefully enable hardware acceleration, open the chrome://flags/ page. Search for the Override Software Rendering list option and click Enable. It looks like this: Flags

Restart Chrome. Check the chrome://gpu/ page again. It should say everything is enabled now, like this: GPU Enabled

Now try out the New Google Maps and see if it works. I don't have an invite, so I can't check >.>

Be warned this may make your browser crash-prone!

Kupiakos
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