On 10/03/2013 12:52 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > NoOp wrote: >> User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 >> Firefox/24.0 SeaMonkey/2.21 >> >> Today when I went to <http://news.yahoo.com/> I noticed that the site >> picked up my geo location (accurately BTW). >> >> Unfortunately this should _not_ have happened as at the time I had: >> 1. About:config: geo.enable=false (this should turn off geolocation) >> 2. Permissions: Share Location=always ask (with geolocation on, I should >> receive a prompt asking if I want to let the site use geolocation) >> >> So I set Permissions: Share Location=Block, cleared cache (memory & >> disk/all), cleared with 'Clear Private Data - all except passwords), >> opened new browser window & again tried news.yahoo.com. Again the site >> is showing my geolocation. >> >> I next went to <http://browserspy.dk/> scrolled down & clicked on >> Geolocation & sure enough, geolocation is _enabled_. >> >> I can't locate an open bug of this type on: >> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=geolocation> >> >> So before I open a bug report, can anyone else verify? > > It guessed my location pretty accurately too (the next town over), but > based on the guess I'm thinking it looked up my IP address and went from > there. I've seen the same thing on google.com and weather.com, which > routinely guess nearby towns instead of my own. For their purposes, > close enough. >
Thanks for checking. Do you have about:config geo.enable=false ? If so, then I'll file a bug report as I consider this to be a bug & potential security issue. <http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/2.0/geolocation> <quote> How do I turn off Location-Aware Browsing permanently? Location-Aware Browsing is always opt-in in SeaMonkey 2.0. No location information is ever sent without your permission. If you wish to disable the feature completely, please follow this set of steps: In the URL bar, type about:config Type geo.enabled Double click on the geo.enabled preference Location-Aware Browsing is now disabled </quote> _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
