{"id":133,"date":"2010-06-20T08:53:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T06:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/twitter-location-firefox-more-accurate-than-google-chrome\/"},"modified":"2010-06-20T08:53:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T06:53:32","slug":"twitter-location-firefox-more-accurate-than-google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/twitter-location-firefox-more-accurate-than-google-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Location &#8212; Firefox more accurate than Google Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I notice this morning when I viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mariusb\">Twitter<\/a> via the browser interface it had an Add Location just under the Tweet\/Update input box.&nbsp; I added my location in both Firefox and Google Chrome and Firefox was more accurate about it.&nbsp; I assume it is either using IP addresses or more likely my Wireless on my laptop to get my location.<\/p>\n<p>This is what Firefox came up with:<br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_cNPSEbi7GQk\/TB25XrC6cZI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/IGEVNRvjLAs\/firefox_location.png\" \/><br \/>and this is from Google Chrome:<br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_cNPSEbi7GQk\/TB25T58SvGI\/AAAAAAAAAhM\/Q0G1tWAGquA\/google_location.png\" \/><br \/>I am actually staying in Bellville so Firefox was spot on. <\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/twiiter%20location\" rel=\"tag\">twiiter location<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I notice this morning when I viewed Twitter via the browser interface it had an Add Location just under the Tweet\/Update input box.&nbsp; I added my location in both Firefox and Google Chrome and Firefox was more accurate about it.&nbsp; I assume it is either using IP addresses or more likely my Wireless on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-open-source"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SHVw-29","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}