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How do I force Firefox to use my present location and not a cached location?

CyanideSandwich
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I am a college student and I am required to use a website called Top Hat for one of my classes. With that website it requires access to my location in order to do secure attendance. Basically it asks for my location to check if you are in close proximity to other people in the class, i.e. if you are in lecture, and you didn't just get a friend to text you the code for attendance while you are at home. Here's the thing, for whatever reason in the version of firefox I am using firefox does not give top hat my current location, but rather gives my most recent location, which is usually from my home, off campus, thus marking me absent. This is what Top Hat support has told me, further on one occasion the location that was given was very far away while still in the state, which makes sense since I had just gotten back from a trip home that morning.

So here is the question, how do I force firefox to check for my location when prompted to, rather than use my most recent location that is cached somewhere in the browser, and if possible, can I disable this cache so that firefox does not store my location for long periods of time. Also, would restarting firefox force firefox to check my location again?

I am using firefox 68.0. I upgraded from firefox 57.0 over this past summer, and I did not have this issue with top hat and location services prior to upgrading.

I am a college student and I am required to use a website called Top Hat for one of my classes. With that website it requires access to my location in order to do secure attendance. Basically it asks for my location to check if you are in close proximity to other people in the class, i.e. if you are in lecture, and you didn't just get a friend to text you the code for attendance while you are at home. Here's the thing, for whatever reason in the version of firefox I am using firefox does not give top hat my current location, but rather gives my most recent location, which is usually from my home, off campus, thus marking me absent. This is what Top Hat support has told me, further on one occasion the location that was given was very far away while still in the state, which makes sense since I had just gotten back from a trip home that morning. So here is the question, how do I force firefox to check for my location when prompted to, rather than use my most recent location that is cached somewhere in the browser, and if possible, can I disable this cache so that firefox does not store my location for long periods of time. Also, would restarting firefox force firefox to check my location again? I am using firefox 68.0. I upgraded from firefox 57.0 over this past summer, and I did not have this issue with top hat and location services prior to upgrading.

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CyanideSandwich
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I don't know how to edit a post, so just will add, I revoked location permissions and re added it when in class, it did not fix anything.

cor-el
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Did you try to clear cache and cookies from this website or possibly use "Clear history when Firefox closes" to clear the cache let the cookies expire automatically (Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed)?

On desktop you only have the IP to do a reverse DNS lookup and not like on a mobile device GPS to get a precise location. So if you still have data in the cache or cookies from a previous visit then it is possible that you are still located in your previous location.

CyanideSandwich
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cor-el said

Did you try to clear cache and cookies from this website or possibly use "Clear history when Firefox closes" to clear the cache let the cookies expire automatically (Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed)? On desktop you only have the IP to do a reverse DNS lookup and not like on a mobile device GPS to get a precise location. So if you still have data in the cache or cookies from a previous visit then it is possible that you are still located in your previous location.

Yes, i wiped the cache/cookies for the website, no change. I keep firefox open all the time and only close when i have another application that is resource intensive, as firefox does love to eat 6gb of ram. So i don't think setting firefox to wipe history/cookies when i clsoe the app would be much use, especially since this wasnt an issue in firefox 57.