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Location wrong for about 2 weeks

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crossmr
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This is only an issue in Firefox, so it's not an issue with my ISP or anything. Chrome shows my location correctly. Around 2 weeks ago after an update to firefox, it's just been constantly showing my location as Dublin. I'm in the UK. Certain sites show it correctly, some don't. Google doesn't show it right.

Several sites i check show it in the UK correctly, but google and a couple others show as in Dublin. I only run a limited number of extensions, Ublock surfshark, and bitwarden. If I put a uk location on surfshark, then google is right, but turning it off and then it is back to ireland.

This is only an issue in Firefox, so it's not an issue with my ISP or anything. Chrome shows my location correctly. Around 2 weeks ago after an update to firefox, it's just been constantly showing my location as Dublin. I'm in the UK. Certain sites show it correctly, some don't. Google doesn't show it right. Several sites i check show it in the UK correctly, but google and a couple others show as in Dublin. I only run a limited number of extensions, Ublock surfshark, and bitwarden. If I put a uk location on surfshark, then google is right, but turning it off and then it is back to ireland.

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You can check the connection settings and check for possible issues with a Proxy or VPN service.

  • Settings -> General -> Network: Connection -> Settings

If you do not need to use a Proxy to connect to internet, select "No Proxy" if "Use the system proxy settings" or one of the others do not work properly.

See also:

You can use websites like these to check how your location is reported via a reverse DNS lookup of your IP:

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cor-el
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You can check the connection settings and check for possible issues with a Proxy or VPN service.

  • Settings -> General -> Network: Connection -> Settings

If you do not need to use a Proxy to connect to internet, select "No Proxy" if "Use the system proxy settings" or one of the others do not work properly.

See also:

You can use websites like these to check how your location is reported via a reverse DNS lookup of your IP:

crossmr
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Hmm. it seems like the proxy thing might have fixed it. It was set to system proxy. But that's nothing that I've ever changed myself. This seemed to occur after firefox updated about 2 weeks ago, was there something in that update that may have changed that? At this moment, google maps and google (after a few more refreshes) seems to be reporting correctly.

cor-el
cor-el
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Using the system proxy is the default and should normally work fine. If there is a problem then some other software (malware) might be causing problems, so maybe run some check like is always a good idea in case of weird issues.

You can do a malware scan, just to be sure.

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