Chrome for OSX and Linux doesn't support Gears and never will so until Twitter supports the HTML5 Geo spec...
2010/4/18 Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> > i use safari + gears on OS X and it works for me. i think its only very > recent that chromium under OS X supports it. > > > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Abraham Williams <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Location used to work on the Windows beta of Chrome but stopped a week or >> two ago for me. It has never worked on my Mac though. >> >> Abraham >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 18:59, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> On my Linux (openSUSE 11.2 with some of the advanced repositories) the >>> message "Unable to locate you. Try again" is showing up, and my tweets >>> aren't getting geotagged. Firefox 3.6.3, Google Chrome 5.0.375.9 dev and >>> Seamonkey 2.0.4 all do this, and it happens for both wired and wireless >>> connections. >>> >>> I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in the Linux stack beneath the browser - >>> the one time I booted one machine up in Windows, it worked in Firefox >>> 3.6.3 with a wireless connection. And it used to work on Linux with >>> Firefox. I haven't tried any other distros or rolling back to Firefox >>> 3.5. I might try a Lucid Lynx LiveCD just to see what happens, but I'd >>> rather get openSUSE to work, since I'm not planning to switch distros >>> just to get my tweets tagged. ;-) >>> >>> Is anyone else seeing this? The Firefox demo at >>> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/#geo-demo works! >>> Anything else I should be looking at? I can grab Wireshark traces but >>> don't know what to look for. >>> -- >>> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky >>> borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky >>> >>> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul >>> Erdős >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Subscription settings: >>> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am >> PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com >> This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. >> > > > > -- > Raffi Krikorian > Twitter Platform Team > http://twitter.com/raffi > -- Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
