Juliana Peña » geolocation http://julianapena.com Musings of a computer science student Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:52:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Firefox Geolocation FAIL http://julianapena.com/2009/06/firefox-geolocation-fail/ http://julianapena.com/2009/06/firefox-geolocation-fail/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:09:41 +0000 Juliana Peña http://julianapena.com/?p=219 I love Firefox 3.5, but after trying out the new geolocation feature, this just blew my mind:

Firefox Geolocation

Where I am, according to Firefox

According to Firefox, I’m currently in the Washington, D.C. area. In reality, I’m in Cali, Colombia. Really, Firefox? A few cities away I can understand. But a whole country? A whole CONTINENT?

I have no idea if the culprit is Firefox’s system, or my ISP giving bogus info. Then again… Speedtest.net says I’m in Venezuela, but at least that’s just one country away.

My correction of Firefox's Geolocation

My correction

Has Firefox’s geolocation been successful to you? How accurate or far off is it?

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