#2080 - Hide geolocation features on non-SSL for some browsers
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By Chris Graham
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| Identifier | #2080 |
|---|---|
| Issue type | Feature request or suggestion |
| Title | Hide geolocation features on non-SSL for some browsers |
| Status | Open |
| Tags |
Type: Standards compliance (custom) |
| Handling member | Deleted |
| Addon | core |
| Description | Google has deprecated geolocation outside SSL. Very long discussion:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/2LXKVWYkOus%5B151-175%5D It's not turned off yet, may not be for years, but it will be at some point. We need to be able to do {$BROWSER_MATCHES,geolocation_available} which would check to see if we can do it, before enabling UI for it. It would look at the browser and look to see if it is SSL. We need to document this somewhere also. |
| Steps to reproduce | |
| Additional information | No action yet, until Google really does something. Still actively being discussed. |
| Funded? | No |
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Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1072859
Chrome: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=561641
So if we implement this we don't need to use BROWSER_MATCHES at all, we just assume only https can do geolocation.