Location sharing stopped working, is there a bug?
I am using Firefox 63.0.3 (64-bit) on Windows 10 Pro 1809. Today, all ability to allow a website access to my location has stopped. Example sites are Hulu and Google Maps. The sites clearly show as being allowed under "Options", "Privacy..", "Permissions", "Location". I have verified that location sharing works on the same computer with IE, Edge, and Chrome. I have completely uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox with addons removed. This did not resolve the issue. Is there a bug or some setting that needs to be changed?
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Hello jwlaws,
Would you please read this article :
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/does-firefox-share-my-location-websites
If the above doesn't change anything for you, would you try this :
Type in the address bar about:config and press Enter (promise to be careful, if asked)
Type in the search bar geo.
Check the values of the following preferences :
geo.wifi.uri
geo.provider.ms-windows-location
geo.enabled
If you had to change a value, then close and restart Firefox in order for the change to take effect.
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Hello jwlaws,
Would you please read this article :
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/does-firefox-share-my-location-websites
If the above doesn't change anything for you, would you try this :
Type in the address bar about:config and press Enter (promise to be careful, if asked)
Type in the search bar geo.
Check the values of the following preferences :
geo.wifi.uri
geo.provider.ms-windows-location
geo.enabled
If you had to change a value, then close and restart Firefox in order for the change to take effect.
McCoy, thanks. It appears "geo.provider.ms-windows-location" was set to "false". I changed it to "true" and the problem was solved. Again, thank-you.
jwlaws said
McCoy, thanks. It appears "geo.provider.ms-windows-location" was set to "false".
I changed it to "true" and the problem was solved. Again, thank-you.
Thank you for letting us know - will be helpful to others with the same problem !