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I get a lousy pop window everytime I'm browsing asking if I would like to share my locations with the current website that i'm browsing on. How do we disable it

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I get a lousy pop window every-time I'm browsing asking if I would like to share my locations with the current website that I'm browsing on. How do we disable this annoying window?

I get a lousy pop window every-time I'm browsing asking if I would like to share my locations with the current website that I'm browsing on. How do we disable this annoying window?

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hello, can you try to replicate this behaviour when you launch firefox in safe mode once? if not, maybe an addon is interfering here...

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You can disable the "Share Location" permission for all sites on the about:permissions page and change it to Block.

You can also check the connection settings.

See "Firefox connection settings":

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Thanks maddawg(person) for the reply. I'll try replicate this in safe mode as you suggested but it could be an add-on as you mentioned...

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Thanks guys for your replies... However I found a resolution as I'll post it here for anyone's future use:

How do I turn off Location-Aware Browsing permanently?

Location-Aware Browsing is always opt-in in Firefox. No location information is ever sent without your permission. If you wish to disable the feature completely, please follow this set of steps:

   In the URL bar, type about:config
   Type geo.enabled
   Double click on the geo.enabled preference
   Location-Aware Browsing is now disabled

[[Location-Aware Browsing|http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/geolocation/]]

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You do not need to do this via the about:config page.

As I wrote above on the about:permissions page you can set the "Share Location" permission for all sites to "Block" to achieve the same effect (this sets the geo.enabled pref accordingly).

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Thanks cor-el for your wonderful input but already disabled that function via the about:config page. However with your link I know I can go back in & reset the permission if I need to. Thanks- your tops!