978798 - Geolocation is not working on Firefox Desktop

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Geolocation, defect)

Description

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

Using Ubuntu LTS 12.04 via the example page from [1], which is [2]. But also using maps.google.com.

The API start looking for the position but never returns anything. The doorhanger shows up but that's it.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Using_geolocation
[2] https://thedotproduct.org/experiments/geo/

Comment 1

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

How, this was tested on a Mac too.

Comment 2

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

The ubuntu one is known (bug 919153); the releases lack a google API key, and there are issues filed on launchpad about it.

Comment 3

[Hanno Schlichting]

This is expected behavior. Unless you explicitly specify a timeout option in the PositionOptions, the default value of 2^32 will be used. So if the position cannot be determined, you don't get an error callback unless that timeout expires, which is practically never. The internal implementation might re-try to get a position fix forever.

Practically you always want to specify a timeout that makes sense for you use-case, possibly something like 5 to 10 seconds.