Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Hi,
I wonder if that is an openSUSE topic.
It probably isn't really, but at least my Firefox is running on openSUSE :-)
Am 01.07.2014 09:01, schrieb Per Jessen:
Just wondering out loud - why is Firefox occasionally asking me for permission to share information that the webserver will have (or have access to) any way?
By default, Firefox uses Google Location Services to determine your location by sending:
your computer’s IP address, information about the nearby wireless access points, and a random client identifier, which is assigned by Google, that expires every 2 weeks.
All Firefox has is my (private) IP-address, so why bother asking when the webserver knows it too??
As you can see Firefox will use more information than your ip address to find your location: "information about the nearby wireless access points"
The webserver does not have that. In case you have no wireless access points detected Firefox indeed only has the ip.
Does Firefox have any information like that? It seems unlikely. There is probably one or two wifi APs in the vicinity, but even if the machine used one, how would Firefox know about it? Just being curious.
But then it's still just a matter of choice for the web application author if he likes to ask your browser or uses your client ip to find your location.
Right.
And btw, Firefox is only asking you if Javascript code from the website is asking your browser. It's not like Firefox decides itself to ask you for your location.
It's clearly some cooperation between FF and the website, I was just wondering what information FF might have that would not be available without my permission. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.8°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org