FS#65241 - [firefox][chromium] Location services error

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Yigit Ates (yigitates) - Wednesday, 22 January 2020, 21:55 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Sunday, 09 August 2020, 04:39 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description: Location services don't work.

Additional info:
* Firefox 72.0.2
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610306

Steps to reproduce:

Go to Google Maps, Yandex Maps, OpenStreetMap etc. and try to detect your exact location. OpenStreetMap throws "Geolocation error: Unknown error acquiring position" error.

According to bug report, there is no problem on Mozilla's builds. So maybe our packager can fix it on our own build.
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Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Sunday, 09 August 2020, 04:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Working again since July 29. It might break again in the future but there's not much we can do about that.
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Sunday, 26 January 2020, 15:49 GMT
Also affects Chromium. Tested using https://browserleaks.com/geo

Our quota has been exceeded.

The network panel in Firefox's browser toolbox shows a failed geolocation request:

{
"error": {
"code": 429,
"message": "Quota exceeded for quota group 'default' and limit 'Requests per day' of service 'geolocation.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:413772536636'.",
"errors": [
{
"message": "Quota exceeded for quota group 'default' and limit 'Requests per day' of service 'geolocation.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:413772536636'.",
"domain": "global",
"reason": "rateLimitExceeded"
}
],
"status": "RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED"
}
}
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Sunday, 01 March 2020, 19:59 GMT
A workaround for Firefox is to switch to the Mozilla Location Service. I added this information to the wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox#Geolocation_does_not_work
Comment by Yigit Ates (yigitates) - Monday, 02 March 2020, 09:30 GMT
Mozilla Location Service is not accurate unfortunately. It can't detect exact location, error margin is too high.

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