The Google Chrome browser, much like Firefox, has a geolocation feature. Geolocation in this context means that websites and services can utilize the user’s location to provide personalized contents. A basic example would be a website that displays information based on the visitor’s location in the world. A weather report website could benefit from this [...]
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Geolocation Added To Google Chrome 5
The latest developer release of Google Chrome 5 that was released a few hours ago introduces a geolocation feature to the web browser. Google Chrome 5 version 5.0.342.1 and later now include an early version of the geolocation api which can be enabled by starting the web browser with the –enable-geolocation startup parameter. Geolocation has [...]