Well, it seems we have enough "does work" and "doesn't work" cases to
justify me taking some Wireshark traces and trying to debug my usage,
especially if Firefox 3.6.3 is still working on wireless in Windows and
failing in wireless on openSUSE 11.2. What should I be looking for in
the traces?

On 04/18/2010 07:07 PM, Abraham Williams wrote:
> 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 <ra...@twitter.com>
> 
>> 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 <4bra...@gmail.com>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 
>>> <zn...@comcast.net>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
>>>>
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>> Raffi Krikorian
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