navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition Callbacks won't work on Firefox 10

Question

I am building an app that uses the Geolocation API. I cant seem to get a very simple piece of code to work on Firefox 10. Here is the code:

    window.onload = f         


        

Answer 1

All right I found that the problem is indeed Firefox and that it does not work reliably or equally on all platforms. Looking at http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html I found the following option to add:

    window.onload = function() {
        if (navigator.geolocation) {
            navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position) {
                alert('it works');
            }, function(error) {
                alert('Error occurred. Error code: ' + error.code);         
            },{timeout:5000});
        }else{
            alert('no geolocation support');
        }
    };

As you can see here the timeout:5000 has been added which means that if for some reason the browser takes more then 5000ms (5 seconds) then throw a timeout error (that's error code 3). So now whenever Firefox is not working it at least runs the error callback and i get an alert message of "Error occurred. Error code: 3".

Apparently the default value of timeout is infinite so it never times out... Chrome is 100% reliable but Firefox is about 10% reliable on my machine which is very disappointing. On my other computer which is running windows XP and is on the same network, Firefox seems to be 100% reliable.