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firefox has something called the mozilla location provider, which maps wifi access points to locations, which is similar to what google maps uses when you have gps disabled on mobile



Is there a way to turn that off? I never want my browser location services to work.


Go to about:config () and set geo.enabled to false.

: if you're on Android, you'll need either an unstable version (Beta, Nightly) or a fork (Fennec from F-Droid) of Firefox to get access to that page because Mozilla decided users of the standard distribution can't be trusted with these settings.


This would make sense, thank you. Apparently Chrome has something similar?




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