Geolocation not working − the Google maps API always returns error codes
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
chromium-browser (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Olivier Tilloy | ||
firefox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Olivier Tilloy |
Bug Description
Happened as soon as Firefox was updated to 72.0.1. I noticed sites could not determine my location.
Troubleshooting page shows "missing" under Location service key.
I have another computer running Lubuntu 18.04LTS, which I rarely use. Just for fun, I booted it up and as soon as the software updater updated Firefox to 72.0.1, location stopped working.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: firefox 72.0.1+
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-74-generic x86_64
AddonCompatChec
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
/dev/snd/
BuildID: 20200107212822
Channel: Unavailable
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Jan 24 19:58:30 2020
Extensions: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
IncompatibleExt
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.0.1 dev wlan0 proto dhcp metric 600
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
192.168.0.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.8 metric 600
Locales: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
MostRecentCrashID: bp-82fc5472-
PrefErrors: Unexpected character ',' before close parenthesis @ /usr/lib/
PrefSources: prefs.js
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=
RunningIncompat
SourcePackage: firefox
Themes: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2019-07-05 (203 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 03/24/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.27
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 1442
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 67.33
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-
dmi.product.family: 103C_5335KV
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
This is not caused by a missing API key, but rather by a change on Google's servers which started returning errors for all geolocation requests (firefox and chromium-browser in Ubuntu use the google geolocation API). See https:/ /groups. google. com/a/chromium. org/forum/ #!topic/ chromium- packagers/ ZytNtRam5II for details.