Firefox 3.5 has a new “feature” that may allow web sites to more accurately pinpoint your location on the planet.  This feature is enabled by default.

When you visit a location-aware website, Firefox will ask you if you want to share your location.  You will have the opportunity to accept of decline this option.

But if you want to permanently disable this feature, do the following:

Open Firefox:

• In the URL bar, type about:config
• Type geo.enabled in the "Filter" box
• Double click on the geo.enabled preference so that it is set to “false”
• Location-Aware Browsing is now disabled

Source: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/

Posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at 10:51 AM and filed under Privacy. You can follow any responses to this post through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or you may trackback from your own site.