694088 - Location-aware browsing cannot determine my position.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ray P]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Build ID: 20110928134238

Steps to reproduce:

Visit http://whatsmylatlng.com.

Pressed "Where am I?"


Actual results:

My location wasn't found and the error message "Oops! An error occurred while trying to determine your position." was displayed.


Expected results:

My position should have been shown based on my ISP address. I am using a XP laptop running Firefox v7.0.1

Comment 1

[Ray P]

I should have added that I selected "Always Share" when the popup box appeared saying the site wanted me to share my location.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm with Firefox7.0.1

Comment 3

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

WFM here too using
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20111013 Firefox/10.0a1 ID:20111013030957
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1 ID:20110928134238

Is your Issue reproducible in Safe-Mode?
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 4

[Ray P]

I'm guessing WFM is "works for me".

Strangely it now works for me. But it places my IP address 70 miles south of my physical address. Is that normal?

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Firefox is using a google service to find the location based on the IP.
It seems that they have no good position.

Comment 6

[Ray P]

Thanks Matti. This isn't a bug in Firefox. Google needs to correct the problem. Happy for you to close this.