See your house from space no matter what browser you’re on.
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Google is sharing the planet with other browsers, literally. The search giant’s aerial mapping service is now available to those who prefer to not use Chrome.
Google Earth is accessible via Firefox, Opera and Edge browsers, according to a Medium post Thursday from the Google Earth team. This official release comes after a six-month public beta. There are plans for supporting Safari browsers, but no details were provided on when that’ll happen.
According to the authors of the post — software engineer Jessi Beck and tech lead manager Jordon Mears — Google Earth was built using Native Client, which only was available on Chrome. They credited WebAssembly — an open standard across multiple browsers to run software — for allowing Google Earth to work on other browsers.