If you check the Browser Console, do you see any security-related errors? I'm thinking particularly of content security policies or other cross-site issues.

To open the Browser Console, you can use either:

• Ctrl+Shift+j
• "3-bar" menu button > Developer > Browser Console
• Tools menu > Web Developer > Browser Console

I suggest clicking the Clear button, the reload the target page to check for any issues on load, then execute your code and check for any new messages.

i looked up some help and the best answer i could find was disable log panels on firebug, that made it work, but when i went to the github example site theirs worked prior to me disabling the log panel

the error log showed vd and r is not defined in maps.static.google

Firebug is a pretty complex extension and I'm not sure there are enough heavy users here to solve this. You might want to pose this question in the Firebug community: https://getfirebug.com/community

This is a known issue, see the Firefox 30 site compatibility document.

yeah i saw that, but what strikes me as odd is when viewing the example on github the demo worked fine while firebug as enabled