Turning geolocation off in Firefox 3.5

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Hi malware fighters,

For those that wanna do this:
The Geolocation feature in Firefox 3.5 can be removed as follows:

Open Firefox 3.5, type “about:config” in the location bar, and search for “geo.enabled”. Double click to set this preference to “false”,

polonus

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Great, polonus

thank you for that. tweaked ff right away…

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Wat is that?

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@ blackeagle

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/geolocation

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thx…

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Thank you for the info, Polonus. Other Firefox users might want to know that disabling the Geolocation feature is absolutely unnecessary. It does not gain a Firefox 3.5 user any additional privacy, since it is 100% opt-in. No site is given the location of a user’s computer unless the user explicitly enables Geolocation for an individual site when the site requests it. I think it’s all explained in the link nmb supplied.

Disabling Geolocation in about:config will merely prevent the user from ever being asked, so I suppose setting it to false would be useful if being asked turns out to be irritating.