Join to Mozilla Location Service in Fedora

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Thu Nov 6 14:18:48 UTC 2014



----- 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.


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