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History of Does Firefox share my location with websites?

Category:: How to
Revision history for:: English

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Revision	Status	S	Editor	Comment
Sep 29, 2024, 12:19:39 PM	Current	M	AliceWyman	"Location-aware browsing" heading: no capitalization
Sep 29, 2024, 9:40:21 AM	Approved	M	Mozinet	formal corrections (no meaningful changes)
Sep 26, 2024, 12:16:23 PM	Approved	M	Lucas Siebert	V131 updates - temporary permissions
Sep 7, 2023, 8:54:28 PM	Approved		AliceWyman	not do anything-> not take any action; deleted pre-fx89 images
Aug 3, 2023, 1:35:02 AM	Unreviewed		BD	minor changes
Nov 14, 2022, 1:00:14 AM	Approved		Lucas Siebert	Dark theme screenshots replaced
Sep 20, 2022, 3:05:36 PM	Approved		Spencer	Changed location access image to white theme
Jun 14, 2022, 11:06:21 AM	Approved	M	JeremyKoozar	Removed capitalization from bulleted lists due to section needeing Legal team approval
Jun 14, 2022, 11:03:44 AM	Unreviewed		JeremyKoozar	Light theme screenshots added
Jun 14, 2022, 10:38:49 AM	Unreviewed		JeremyKoozar	Minor spelling update; capitalized first words in bulleted list per KB writing guide
Jan 7, 2022, 12:14:45 PM	Approved	M	JeremyKoozar	Updated screenshots for Fx95; removed redundancies, restructured and moved sentences/info, and made other minor updates.
May 26, 2021, 5:00:49 AM	Approved	M	AliceWyman	more new images for fx89, other edits
May 21, 2021, 1:19:14 PM	Approved	M	irishgordo	Just happened to notice it seems that Google may refer to Gelocation as more of it's "Google Location Service" via the link. Thought maybe to be semantic it might be worthwhile to change the link title. Then again, as it stands it still is great! :)
May 11, 2021, 6:57:51 AM	Approved		Fabi	[Fx89] Minor (screenshot)
Oct 6, 2020, 8:18:39 AM	Approved	M	Erin S.	Fixed some grammatical errors and reworded some sentences for a better flow.
Jun 29, 2019, 1:06:53 AM	Approved	M	Marcelo Ghelman	Some better explanation
Jun 28, 2019, 2:42:15 AM	Approved	M	AliceWyman	added Intro, new images; other edits
Jun 27, 2019, 3:43:17 PM	Approved	M	yoasif	added location blocking
May 6, 2019, 8:44:52 PM	Reviewed	M	fffknol	avoid misunderstanding when opted out - 100 Km location is still poss.
Sep 14, 2018, 1:12:41 AM	Approved	M	Tonnes	change updated MDN web docs page’s link and title
Jan 25, 2018, 8:50:37 PM	Approved	M	Tonnes	typo (could use small g too). Please allow discussions and move to proper category (pref. before approval/RFL)
Jan 25, 2018, 7:36:13 PM	Unreviewed		Michele Rodaro	[[T:optionspreferences]] + Numbered list
Jan 17, 2018, 3:26:06 AM	Approved	MT	hoosteeno	Created SUMO KB article containing information from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/geolocation/