FS#60075 - [firefox] Build Firefox with gpsd location provider support (--enable-gpsd)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Karl (carlos22) - Sunday, 16 September 2018, 10:01 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 02 January 2023, 14:11 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:
Firefox 50+ has support for gpsd, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1250922
That would allow users with a GPS device to use the provided GPS data for the Geolocation API within the browser - not by default (in stable release builds), but only after explicitly setting 'geo.location.use_gpsd' to 'true' in about:config. Which is a good thing, as no defaults change.

For more information see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1783202 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1250922
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Monday, 02 January 2023, 14:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cg i?id=1803234

upstream wants to kill gpsd support.
Comment by mattia (nTia89) - Sunday, 19 September 2021, 08:15 GMT
Is this issue still valid?

I am not able to find any resource about `geo.location.use_gpsd` setting...
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Sunday, 19 September 2021, 14:48 GMT
It probably is (the code still exists), but no other distribution is doing this. Also, building in gpsd support enables it by default thus preventing the use of a WiFi-based location.
Comment by mattia (nTia89) - Sunday, 19 September 2021, 16:11 GMT
Reading your comment make understand that cannot be enabled because people that does not have a GPS-connected PC is much more than others,
thus I am of the opinion to close this three years old issue.

More, I cannot find an official resource about it,
Plus, stable FF does not have `geo.location.use_gpsd`,
Finally, I was aware other services (such as geoclue) were in charge of this duty.

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