Question

I made a web application that is heavily dependent on Google Earth plug-in. There are times that it crashes due to unknown reasons.

I was wondering if there ways to :

1. catch when the plug-in crashed
2. refresh the plug-in without refreshing the page

Answer 1

For your question number 1) – see my answer on this SO Question

For 2) – I haven’t tested this, but when you detect the plug-in has crashed, try running your initial function again. The one that should look something like this

function init() {
  google.earth.createInstance('map3d', initCB, failureCB);
}