Build Firefox with gpsd location provider support (--enable-gpsd)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Firefox 50+ has support for gpsd, see https:/
That would allow users with a GPS device to use the provided GPS data for the Geolocation API within the browser - not by default (in stable release builds), but only after explicitly setting 'geo.location.
However that support has to be enabled with the build flag --enable-gpsd.
As you can see in toolkit/
https:/
If you want to dig deeper here are the three changes that brought gpsd support:
https:/
https:/
https:/
There is not much magic here: When users switch on the flag 'geo.location.
The only thing you might want to be aware of is that on non-release builds, the gpsd location provider is enabled by default, meaning 'geo.location.
What do you think?
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.