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From: Nemesis on 1 Jun 2010 11:43
If you use firefox or thunderbird,
type:
about:config
on the address line, then do a search for these two keys:
geo.enabled change to false
geo.wifi.uri change to localhost

Amazing the amount of information google/mozilla want to archive about
users.
From: pete on 1 Jun 2010 11:45
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 15:43:20 +0000 (UTC), Nemesis wrote:
> If you use firefox or thunderbird,
> type:
> about:config
> on the address line, then do a search for these two keys:
> geo.enabled change to false
> geo.wifi.uri change to localhost
>
> Amazing the amount of information google/mozilla want to archive about
> users.

Must be a new-fangled thing. Neither entry appears in my 3.0.17 firefox
From: Nemesis on 1 Jun 2010 11:47
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:43:20 +0000, Nemesis wrote:

> If you use firefox or thunderbird,
> type:
> about:config
> on the address line, then do a search for these two keys: geo.enabled
> change to false
> geo.wifi.uri change to localhost
>
> Amazing the amount of information google/mozilla want to archive about
> users.

You just might want to change these too:

network.dns.disablePrefetch
network.dns.disablePrefetchFromHTTPS
network.prefetch-next

I have a few more tweaks if anyone is interested.
And now I present ....
tatata ...
Hummingbird_false, with his comments on this post.
From: Nemesis on 1 Jun 2010 11:49
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:45:53 +0000, pete wrote:
>
> Must be a new-fangled thing. Neither entry appears in my 3.0.17 firefox

fairly new, yes.
From: s|b on 1 Jun 2010 13:42
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 15:43:20 +0000 (UTC), Nemesis wrote:

> If you use firefox or thunderbird,
> type:
> about:config
> on the address line, then do a search for these two keys:
> geo.enabled change to false

I think you misinterpret the geolocation option. In any case, IIRC, when
a site wants to make use of the geolocation function you will see a
warning, much alike the one you see when a pop-up is blocked. So I don't
see much use in tinkering in about:config when the option can be blocked
when the time comes.

> geo.wifi.uri change to localhost

I don't have WiFi, so I couldn't care less what this does.

> Amazing the amount of information google/mozilla want to archive about
> users.

You're one of those people with an tinfoil hat on their head, no? ;-)

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