💬 Discussion | Firefox geo.enabled concerns #841

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jonah · 2019-04-09T17:29:15Z

jonah commented

2019-04-09 17:29:15 +00:00

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Hi Jonah,

I just found that geo.enabled might stop certain website from displaying correctly. Here's something I posted on Reddit describing this issue:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bb9vgy/site_broken_under_firefox_unless_geoenabled_is/

I am not sure if the team is aware of this. I am reporting this to you and see if it's advisable to add some warning in the description part of this item. Thanks.

I received this via email. > Hi Jonah, > > I just found that geo.enabled might stop certain website from displaying correctly. Here's something I posted on Reddit describing this issue: > https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bb9vgy/site_broken_under_firefox_unless_geoenabled_is/ > > I am not sure if the team is aware of this. I am reporting this to you and see if it's advisable to add some warning in the description part of this item. Thanks.

Mikaela commented

2019-04-10 10:21:34 +00:00

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I wonder what do Mozilla/Firefox developers say about this. I cannot find open issues at Bugzilla, which might be a better place to discuss this, even if we should probably link to the bug.

I wonder what do Mozilla/Firefox developers say about this. I cannot find open issues [at Bugzilla](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=geo.enabled&list_id=14660229), which might be a better place to discuss this, even if we should probably link to the bug.

0xRustlang commented

2019-04-25 19:11:37 +00:00

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Hello

AFAIK geo permission won't granted automatically and if a website asks for it, browser will ask from user.
Setting default deny for geo is bad for fingerprinting because it makes the user completely distinct from others while having low benefit.
Another problem with it is geo is mostly absent in laptops/drsktops (although my main reason was above i wrote this also for more reasons.)

Thanks

Hello AFAIK geo permission won't granted automatically and if a website asks for it, browser will ask from user. Setting default deny for geo is bad for fingerprinting because it makes the user completely distinct from others while having low benefit. Another problem with it is geo is mostly absent in laptops/drsktops (although my main reason was above i wrote this also for more reasons.) Thanks

blacklight447 commented

2019-08-28 18:08:48 +00:00

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Closing issue as we no longer list this preference.

Mikaela commented

2019-08-28 18:31:25 +00:00

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#1217 was the deleting PR for future reference.

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