As you know with Firefox 3.5 geolocation is in-build into the browser.However I was extremely uncomfortable with the fact that I have to use Google as the geolocation provider instead of the GPS which I have.I felt it was a little silly because GPS is more accurate then wifi based geolocation.And I was looking out for ways to integrate my gps with Firefox or for that matter any websites.
Let me give a brief use case of Geolcation .So if you are in a city while driving and you are looking for the nearest hotel of your favorite cuisine.So till now you would have to type in your location etc.But with geolocation , if you allow Firefox to give your location to a website you can get context sensistive searches.You can read more about geolocation in a browser @ http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/

Now coming back to the original post that you want to use your own gps , to provide your location to firefox then recently someone has checked in a fix for it in firefox.So I anticipate for it to show up in 3.6.I will try out the nightly builds as Im extremely excited about this fix.

posted at: 04:30 | category: /firefox | permanent link to this entry