Disable Mozilla location services about webconverger-addon HOT 4 CLOSED

geo.enabled false should hopefully do the trick. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/geolocation/

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Still not working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXbygG4xOFE

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The Mozilla location service isn't actually used for geolocation in the release or beta channels of Firefox. In those channels we use Google's location service. To turn off geolocation setting independent of the actual backend service, setting the "geo.enabled" flag to false is enough.

In the release channels the Mozilla location service is used to help in figuring out regional search defaults. You can probably set the "browser.search.geoip.url" pref to an empty string (defaults to: "https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/country?key=%MOZILLA_API_KEY%"). Setting the "browser.search.geoSpecificDefaults" to false might also work and disable the access to the separate https://search.services.mozilla.com/ service at the same time.

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browser.search.geoip.url is set to an empty string as recommended above, but still seeing a request to https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/country?key=xxxxxxxx-a83b-487f-9b5d-xxxxxxxxxxxx when letting the browser idle. This is in 78.7.0esr from the Debian Bullseye repositories.

One (new?) setting I hadn't touched yet is browser.search.geoSpecificDefaults (while browser.search.geoSpecificDefaults.url was already cleared to an empty string) which I now set to false, as well as the geo.enabled setting above. Perhaps that will do the trick. Note that I'm not actually looking to disable geolocation: when the browser asks to share location with a website and I click yes, then I'd actually like to make use of it.

Bit tricky to make firefox not send requests when I'm not browsing websites, combing through and clearing all the domains and urls in about:config isn't enough anymore...

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