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hoschi

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From: Ulm (Germany)

Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 476

[Solved] Geolocation fails with Epiphany

Hello!

I can't figure out since when (WebKit2Gtk >= 2.8.1 or Epiphany 3.16.0), but usage of geolocation within Epiphany seems not to work any longer. If written a test page some days ago and everything worked, but now it doesn't do anything in Epiphany and also doesn't complain:

www.ttyhoney.com/test
-> should show you a map with your location ~ accurancy 50 km based on your ip address in central europe

same here:
www.openstreetmap.org
-> right click on the arrow (under plus/minus) on the right-hand side

The stuff from Google-Maps seems to work in some way. Anyone else?

Thank you

PS: And while your on my page, it it also telling you that the Java-Plugin is installed and available (assuming this is not the case in truth)?
PS: Yeah. I'm currently seem to have a little bit bad luck with Epiphany at all

Last edited by hoschi (2015-05-23 14:46:49)

joe_silver

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Registered: 2015-04-21

Posts: 27

Re: [Solved] Geolocation fails with Epiphany

Hi,

It seems to work fine for me: each of those three services locate me about 2 km souther than the real position.

hoschi

Member

From: Ulm (Germany)

Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 476

Re: [Solved] Geolocation fails with Epiphany

Thanks for your answer! You're right. I tested it on a second box and it works here! Probably the "Location Services" were turned of on the first machine and are only evaluated during login or something like that (I've turned the toggle "ON").

May I ask you, what does javaEnabled() tell you?
Even on my second box (no Java at all) it prints "Java is enabled".

Last edited by hoschi (2015-05-23 14:47:25)