navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition do not work in Firefox 30.0

Question

I am using Firefox 30.0 (latest FF), and navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition is working in Chrome but not in this version of FF.

Here is my code:

if (navigator.geolocation) {
    navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(GEOprocess, GEOdeclined);
}else{
    alert('Your browser sucks. Upgrade it.');
}

function GEOdeclined(error) {
    alert('Error: ' +error.message);
}

function GEOprocess(position) {
    alert('it works');
}

I am getting this error:

Error: Unknown error acquiring position

Note: It stopped working after upgrading Firefox to version 30.0

Matthus

Answer 1

Now I'm using 47 Mozilla. I have tried everything, but all time this problem. BUT then I open about:config in my address bar, go geo.wifi.uri and changed its value to "https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/geolocate?key=test". works!

Jessamine

Changing the uri worked for me too, seems like google is blocking something. – Lidstone

but client need to do setting for geolocation, is there any way to modify that setting through coding or instead of setting can we get geolocation through other way – Anemone

@Abhijit Jagtap i needed it only for my local environment. – Jessamine

Thanks @VasylGutnyk for a reply, but do you have any idea, how do I implement it at client side? – Anemone

@Abhijit Jagtap didn't work with smth like that. but maybe this library can help u: github.com/pyllyukko/user.js – Jessamine

The config key has changed from "geo.wifi.uri" to "geo.provider.network.url". I'm using FF 76 – Stodge

Answer 2

I've a possible solution:

I think that the mozilla guys have change something in the location adquisition process, so now it take more time and the function getCurrentPosition gets a timeout.

This will answer the question of why it works in chrome, worked in FF 29 and not in FF 30.0.

But thats a suposition. Now let's get back to the real world:

I've put a timeout of 10 seconds on the call and now it works. I've done it this way:

navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(onSuccess, onError, {timeout:10000});

This fixed it for me. It works on FF 30.

Yip