Join to Mozilla Location Service in Fedora

Martin Stransky stransky at redhat.com
Thu Nov 6 15:08:21 UTC 2014


On 11/06/2014 03:18 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> as you may know [0] Firefox in Fedora [1] is using Mozilla Location
>> service [2] as a location provider instead of the Google one.
>>
>> I'd like to ask you to join the project, install the Mozilla Stumbler
>> application [3] and help to improve the location accuracy.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> ma.
>>
>> p.s.: Yes, I know about GeoClue2, see [1] for the discussion. But it's
>> not ready yet and won't be anytime soon.
>
> Geoclue2 *is* ready. Firefox support for GeoClue2 isn't. It was supposed to
> be implemented by a Firefox hacker, but he failed to make any progress in the past
> 6 months.
>
> That probably means that we'll have to look at it ourselves. Good thing we can
> use GDBus in Firefox now though.

Sure, we can switch to Geoclue2 when we have a r+ patch FF for it.
ma.



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