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Firefox 3.5 Gets Geolocation, Powered by Google

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“When Google Labs released its experimental browser toolbar with its My Location finder for Internet Explorer last week, we wondered why it wasn’t available for Firefox. Now we know. Instead of being added on through a toolbar or extension, it was intended to be built in. So, on Thursday, Mozilla turned on a new feature for Firefox 3.5 beta 4, and for Fennec, the code name for the mobile version of Firefox: Google’s geolocation service. Like the toolbar with My Location, Mozilla’s opt-in engine will use your position to return more focused search results across the Web…”

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