Posted on 07/06/2009 1:16:37 PM PDT by Gomez
If the new Location-Aware Browsing (a.k.a. Geolocation) feature in Firefox 3.5 makes you worried about your privacy, you can turn the feature off with a simple about:config tweak.
A Quick Look at Location-Aware Browsing
For those who are curious about this new feature, here is a quick look at what happens when you encounter a website that triggers the function in Firefox. You can also visit a website that has been set up as a Geolocation demo (link at the bottom of the article).
Note: The Location-Aware Browsing feature uses Google Location Services to determine your location with the following: your computers IP address, information about nearby wireless access points, and a random client identifier (that is assigned by Google and expires every 2 weeks).
When you encounter a website that asks for your location, you will see this bar pop up at the top of your browsing window.
(Excerpt) Read more at howtogeek.com ...
Is there a way to disable “geolocation” in Explorer?
It deals with Firefox, not OSX.
If you are running Firefox 3.5 on a Mac use the instructions.
Don’t know if other versions have the geo ‘feature’ but from the article I suspect no.
Thanks for the tip.
Another alternative is the TOR browser: https://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/
Go one step further: Run the TOR browser on a USB thumbdrive from a internet cafe...
Why are you telling ME this?
No, really, why? Why? WHY!!!
As I do not use Explorer, I cannot help you.
I'm sorry.
Ping?
Sorry for the late reply, I missed this one.
To comment out a line just add a “//” without the quotes in front of the text.
// This is a comment because Gomez started the line with a “//”
Thanks to Gomez for posting and Tubebender for the heads up.
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
Exactly. Better safe than sorry and why support in any way a POS like Google that has their nose up the Kenyan’s as*
3.0.11 and I have no intention of using the 3.5 since they did this crap with Google.
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Why are you telling ME this?
No, really, why? Why? WHY!!!
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Okay Central: we’ve got him. Position 42:30:12-112:10:14
This is an all units alert.
This is nothing new.
You must give your IP address to surf the web unless you use a proxy. Anyone can tell where you are but not who you are if they know your IP address. Check the link below, just by going there they will know where you are.
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?Getlocation
Thanks much Gomez!
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