This is a misquote. What I wrote is: "the new Google Maps (which modern browsers Google knows get automatically since February 2014)". As I wrote, the new Google Maps with the HTML5-based StreetView went live in mid-2013, but until February 2014 you had to opt-in no matter the browser used. This is what has changed in February 2014 for modern browsers that are recognized by Google (thus not for OWB).
> I didn't update my installation of OWB from v1.22 to v1.23 in between those > and this release, so I missed out on this feature during that time
I'm not sure what missing out on the v1.23 release would have to do with anything. As I said, boot_wb wrote in August 2013 that the HTML5-based Google StreetView worked for him in OWB. This was when v1.20 was recent. So apparently it has worked with v1.20 and all subsequent OWB releases. And I reckon it's also working with releases older than v1.20 (where I can understand that nobody tried, though).
