I seem to recall hearing Gears doesn't work on Fx 3.6. I don't remember if it was only OSX/Linux or all platforms.
Abraham On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 21:44, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 <[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 > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul > Erdős > -- Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
