If you use what3words.com and go down to Streetview (exactly the same as from Goggle) the view you get on IE11 is different to the view on FireFox. Images from different days, different resolution. And probably from different server farms. On poor broadband IE11 is marginally better at actually doing the job, poorer resolution does not need the speeds. And there is a measure of luck, because moving around in street view can elicit an old view of, say, a car park in Sidmouth that when approached from another line shows the house that was built on it. And that house was built 3 festivals ago!
But the only alternative to Streetview on Goggl is Bing and that is but a poor substitute. Not sure about Apple, but they have been mapping the world, their white van came down my road, and I knew what it was immediately.