Nice to know, thanks for the info!
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Sam Dickinson < [email protected]> wrote: > I don't know if anyone can help with this (or even if anyone is > interested) but I have finally tracked down an issue which was > beginning to bug me. > > Here's the scenario... > > Over the past few months I have noticed a number of pieces of software > which rely on a fairly low level network card access having issues > whenever I started a web browser. The most significant of these was my > CAD application (which uses the MAC address of the LAN card for > licensing) actually loosing the license every time I started Firefox. > This was obviously quite annoying as my only fix was to exit and start > again. Then it happened with a piece of wireless scanning software > (inSIDDer) which would loose access to the wireless card whenever I > ran Firefox on my laptop. This meant that my issue was affecting 2 > different machines in similar ways. I loaded the CAD software on the > laptop as well and it did the same thing as the desktop. > > Anyway... to cut a long story short, I eventually tracked the issue > down to Google Gears and the "location" permission in the web browser. > Whenever Gears requests the "location" then my other applications are > "tripped up". > > I have now disabled the location permission and the problems have > cleared. I tested this pretty extensively and I'm 99% confident that > that was the cause. > > I don't know if this is a bug in Gears or a bug in the applet which > were calling it but at the end of the day it is pretty annoying. > > Does anyone care to comment? > > Cheers, > Sam > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gears-users+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
