HTML5 Geolocation Not Working Firefox 72.0.1 - Mozila Firefox for Ubuntu
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(Core :: DOM: Geolocation, defect)
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(Reporter: ravirupapara, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.108 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce:
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(position => {
console.info(position)
}, error => {
console.error(error)
})
Running this basic code snippet in the console returns a PositionError object with the message "Unknown error acquiring position"
about:config "geo.wifi.uri" is set to
https://www.googleapis.com/geolocation/v1/geolocate?key=%GOOGLE_API_KEY%
The code snippet is tested in Chrome/IE and works as expected.
It works If I changed geo.wifi.uri to https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/geolocate?key=test. But this is not giving me the exact location.
It would be appreciated if anyone could help me out. Thanks.
Actual results:
"Unknown error acquiring position"
Expected results:
Should return the correct location with lat long
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Comment 1•6 years ago
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i can confirm that i get a 429 http response from the google geolocation server when testing with builds provided by ubuntu - mozilla builds do work though (both with https://www.googleapis.com/geolocation/v1/geolocate?key=%GOOGLE_API_KEY% set).
different api keys seem to be used, so perhaps this is rather something to get on ubuntu's radar?
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Comment 2•6 years ago
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Unfortunately not working for me. Are there any other suggestions?
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Comment 3•6 years ago
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the problem is also apparent on arch linux according to https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/esejw0/location_services_problem/
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Comment 6•6 years ago
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Does anyone know where GOOGLE_API_KEY value is set? It's not set as an env var.
Is it per-user or a shared key for all installations?
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Comment 7•6 years ago
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The priority flag is not set for this bug.
:willkg, could you have a look please?
For more information, please visit auto_nag documentation.
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Comment 8•6 years ago
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I've been following this bug since it was reported. For what it's worth, the latest update (to v. 73.0.1) fixed it for me.
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Comment 9•6 years ago
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I think it's this issue in Launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1860830
I think this is a downstream issue and I suggest following up there.
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