Hi all! I hope this is the right community for this, I have a rather strange issue with Firefox for Android, and I couldn’t find any info on this particular bug(?).
For a while now (though I can’t really put my finger on since when) I can’t grant access in Firefox to location data. The small modal popup appears, but the button that should allow the use of my location just… doesn’t do anything. I can press as many times as I want, but the dialog doesn’t disappear, the button does not doing anything. I can see it gets pressed, but no effect.
But not always. Sometimes it works, but 90% of the time it won’t. There are times when I can spam it till I die, other times the button gets pressed after a while, or after trying different angles to press the button. Yeah, I know, it sounds silly. And also, there are cases where it works right the first touch on the “Allow” button.
This feels even worse in Private Browsing session, tho I don’t know is it technically worse, but it definitely feels worse.
I have the latest version of the browser that is available in the Play Store. Android version 14, running Samsung One UI 6.1.
Checking system settings lead to nowhere, it seems every relevant setting is OK, but I haven’t changed anything around them in a good while.
As I said, I’m not sure whether a Firefox update or an Android/One UI system update caused this, or what else, it’s like from one day to another, which makes it super weird.
Anyone having any idea? I haven’t tried full data wipe on Firefox nor reinstalling it, I wouldn’t really like to do that, but if there’s nothing else, I may try that too.
Thank you guys and have a nice weekend ;)
Something must be broken right now. I noticed this problem recently on the AQI site (link below). Popup does nothing. Going through the lock icon menu can change it from block to allow, but the site still doesn’t get the location.
Do you have a pi-hole? After I set mine up, suddenly YouTube stopped remembering my history until I allowed the right domain. Maybe this is the same sort of problem? I’ll try to check that today.
The site you linked ia broken in this manner for me, too.
As for the pi-hole - no, nothing like that. I have some extensions and Firefox’s blocking set to strict mode, but they don’t matter.
Happened to think of this today and found this site
Scroll down to the Browser Geolocation section, expand it, and click Start Test. It prompted me as expected and returned the correct data.
If FF isn’t the problem, maybe there’s a recent bug in a commonly used js framework? 🤷♂️
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, this is broken, too. But around 40 taps later, it works once or twice.
Ah geez. That’s weird with a beard.
FWIW, I checked the pi-hole and there doesn’t appear to be any contemporaneous blocks for my phone when attempting to share location. (I wouldn’t think that would be necessary for location sharing but I’ve been surprised before.)
I also checked to see if Android shows that the location was accessed by the FF app and it does. It’s just not making it to the page for whatever reason.
I’ll report back if I discover anything more.
