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can't access weather.com

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trander
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When I clicked on weather.com it kept asking me to share my location. I clicked on the icon? and it said I could disable the question by typing something in the url area, I did this and got to a place where I changed true to false I believe. Now I cannot access the weather channel website at all. I can't remember what steps I took or how to undo this.


When I clicked on weather.com it kept asking me to share my location. I clicked on the icon? and it said I could disable the question by typing something in the url area, I did this and got to a place where I changed true to false I believe. Now I cannot access the weather channel website at all. I can't remember what steps I took or how to undo this.

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Does this sound like the right setting:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste geo and pause while the list is filtered

(3) If the geo.enabled preference is bolded and "user set" to false, double-click it to restore the default value of true

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Does this sound like the right setting:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste geo and pause while the list is filtered

(3) If the geo.enabled preference is bolded and "user set" to false, double-click it to restore the default value of true

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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You can set a permanent preference for an individual site's ability to access your location using the Permissions panel of the Page Info dialog.

So while you are viewing a page on the site, call that up using any of these:

  • right-click a blank area of the page and choose View Page Info > Permissions
  • (menu bar) Tools menu > Page Info > Permissions
  • click the padlock or globe icon to the left of the site address, then the ">" icon, then More Information > Permissions

Near the top, you'll find "Access Your Location" and you can uncheck the "Use default" box and select the permission you prefer.

This is saved right away, so then you can close the dialog.

cor-el
cor-el
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Note that the System Detail list next to the question shows that you have a user.js file in the profile folder to initialize prefs each time Firefox starts. The user.js file will only be present if you or other software has created this file and normally won't be present.

You can check its content with a plain text editor (right-click: "Open with"; do not double-click). The user.js file is read each time Firefox is started and initializes preferences to the value specified in this file, so preferences set via user.js can only be changed temporarily for the current session.

You can delete the user.js file if you didn't create this file yourself.

You can use this button to go to the current Firefox profile folder:

Windows hides some file extensions by default. Among them .html and .ini and .js and .txt and you may only see a file name without file extension. You can check the file extension (type) in the properties of the file in Windows Explorer via the right-click context menu.