754589 - Geolocation OSX Teathering Iphone

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Geolocation, defect)

Description

[Kevin Youkhana]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Build ID: 20120420145725

Steps to reproduce:

Geolocation not working in FireFox 12 when teathering internet on mobile device Using OSX 10.6.8


Actual results:

Basically mapping just doesn't show the current location when internet is teathered on Macbook

if you visit the following site

http://benwerd.com/lab/geo.php

Or even this one

http://merged.ca/iphone/html5-geolocation

It will not work if your teathering your iphone on your macbook


Expected results:

Map should have been displayed

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

How should that work at all ?
The IP of the Phone gives no information for geolocation and there is no GPS.

Comment 2

[Kevin Youkhana]

If you follow this example to the tee it works in latest version of Chrome but in Firefox 12 it doesn't.  It will work if you are connected to a wireless or wired network but the fallback doesn't work if you are tethering your computer to the internet. 

http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/getting-started-html5-geolocation

Scroll down until you see 

Getting basic geolocation data with a fallback

In Chrome that example works perfectly but in Firefox 12 it doesn't

Comment 3

[:garvan]

I just tried and this seems to be working now.