Closed Bug 1536481 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Firefox denies access to navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition even if the user clicks "allow" if CoreLocation permission is disabled

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Geolocation, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Geolocation
Version:
66 Branch
Platform:
Unspecified
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1529591

People

(Reporter: lizzard, Unassigned)

Details

From HN: firefox denies access to 'navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition' even if the user clicks "allow" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19431146)

Maybe this is the quota?
Or this is a bad interaction with the Windows api?

Hard to say without more info...

Please reopen with more information

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE

I wrote the referenced comment on HN. Turns out about:config "geo.provider.use_corelocation" = false as described in another comment(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19433708) solved my problem. I spend about 5 hours googling about the issue and did not came across any solutions. I think that should be better documented, eg showing that "you gave this page access to your location but firefox did not get the permission the access your location by your operating system"

OS: Unspecified → macOS

Yeah, we could improve the wording, thanks

Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: INCOMPLETE → ---
Summary: firefox denies access to navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition → Firefox denies access to navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition even if the user clicks "allow" if CoreLocation permission is disabled
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago → 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Type: enhancement → defect
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