[Fwd: Re: Firefox Geolocation]

[Craig Andrews]

It would be great if us geoclue people could work on the Firefox support
for Geoclue, and get the Master provider into shape for them. I'm really
psyched about Geoclue in Firefox!

BTW - Geoclue is now in Debian! http://packages.debian.org/geoclue

~Craig

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Subject: Re: Firefox Geolocation
From:    "Doug Turner" <dougt at meer.net>
Date:    Thu, April 2, 2009 5:16 pm
To:      "Craig Andrews" <candrews at integralblue.com>
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Hi Craig,

I posted this one:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/details/11241

This will use WiFi.  Please test it out and let me know how it works
for you.  It uses the same service that Google Gears uses.

Firefox 3.5 will not ship with any default geolocation providers.  We
may update the Mozilla Lab's Geode project for Firefox 3.5.

Yes, there are people intergrating Geoclue into Firefox.  I am not
sure when it will land (probably post 3.5).  That work is happening
here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485472

Regards,
Doug


On Apr 2, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Craig Andrews wrote:

> I'm running Firefox 3.5 nightlies, and I can't seem to find any
> geolocation providers. I noticed that a while back, and made a manual
> provider, and a wifi provider, but they are no longer compatible.
> Which
> leads me to my questions...
>
> 1) Are you planning on updating the 2 providers you have listed on
> addons.mozilla.org?
>
> 2) Will Mozilla be supplying any geolocation providers for Firefox 3.5
> when it is released? If so... any ideas what they may be?
>
> 3) Have you considered using Geoclue as a location provider, like
> Webkit
> is doing?
>
> Thanks!
> ~Craig