geolocation in firefox

[sara fink]

I checked the languages settings in firefox.  It has only english.

The OS has english and hebrew.


On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:42 AM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il>wrote:

> Don't forget the site has two ways of guessing where you're from/what
> language you want regardless of geolocation:
> 1. IP as mentioned by Tomer
> 2. Your browser sends a list of preferred languages to the webserver,
> generally the OS locale is the first on the list unless you change it, you
> can set/change the order in Edit > Preferences > Content > Languages.
>
>
> 2014-04-16 0:15 GMT+03:00 Tomer Cohen <tomer at gmx.net>:
>
> The browser geolocation feature meant to provide sites access to an accurate
>> location data from a GPS receiver or other techniques. This feature is in
>> use by Google Maps as well as some other sites, but require your permission
>> before submitting your location data once or per-session.
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Using_geolocation
>>
>> Sites can't ever access this data without your prior permission. Since
>> this is probably not the case, I don't think the geolocation API was used.
>> The site in question probably located you by the GeoIP feature, which
>> doesn't provide accurate location but a country of origin or estimated
>> region in the country. It is more difficult to fake GeoIP since it is based
>> only by your IP address, but you can use a proxy or a VPN to remove your
>> traces.
>>
>> Given that said, sometimes it is easier to just change a preference on
>> the site to provide you the site in another language (but still this won't
>> remove any country restrictions for content).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:55 PM, sara fink <sara.fink at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Everyone
>>>
>>> I changed enable.geolocation to false in firefox, but it still doesn't
>>> work with the site that I want to enter. I am still redirected to israeli
>>> site instead of the abroad site.
>>>
>>> Anyone knows why this configuration doesn't work? Is there another way
>>> to make it work? I tried the extension of geolocater but this one also
>>> doesn't work for new firefox versions
>>>
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