Impossible to grant the permission to use location
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Latest macOS, latest Vivaldi.
In the "Settings > Privacy and security" for every listed website the permission to know the location is permanently stuck in the "Block" state.
Even if I remove a site from that list, the next time it tries to determine the location, it will again become blocked no matter which button I press in the popup asking for that permission.
And even if I visit the settings and try to manually switch the permission to "Allow", it will immediately switch back to "Block".
What am I doing wrong?
Edit: this also happens with a freshly created profile with no installed extensions.
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Is Vivaldi blocked from locations in macOS privacy settings?
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Is Vivaldi blocked from locations in macOS privacy settings?
Indeed it was. Thanks!
So now the setting itself behaves as it should. But still an attempt to determine the current location gives this message from Google Maps "Your precise location could not be determined."
I get the same message in Vivaldi's guest window so apparently it's not some extension or browser setting.
Also Google Maps web site correctly determines my location if open in Safari.
Another thing I noticed -- "System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Location Services" adds an icon to the listed apps which recently used the location services. Vivaldi doesn't have that icon for some reason.
Relaunching Vivaldi didn't change that.
Just in case I opened Google Maps in Brave browser which was already on that list but without an icon since I use it rarely. And the icon correctly appeared when it should.
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@homatyano Please read:
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/geolocation/
"Currently, on Windows we use Windows’ geolocation service, but on macOS and Linux geolocation has been disabled."
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"Currently, on Windows we use Windows’ geolocation service, but on macOS and Linux geolocation has been disabled."
OK, I see, thanks.
But don't you think that this information (that geolocation is unavailable for the current OS) shouldn't require asking on a forum or having read all release notes?
IMO would be better to state this right in the Location popup (where it says "Web site "google.com" is accessing your location") and/or in the Security popup (where the website's security and the permissions are listed).
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@homatyano said in Impossible to grant the permission to use location:
But don't you think that this information (that geolocation is unavailable for the current OS) shouldn't require asking on a forum or having read all release notes?
Well, I think Vivaldi is the kind of browser where users are expected to read the Help documentation if they wonder about something. After all it's easily accessible through F1 or the Help menu.
IMO would be better to state this right in the Location popup (where it says "Web site "google.com" is accessing your location") and/or in the Security popup (where the website's security and the permissions are listed).
Maybe, but unfortunately these dialogs and messages are still Chromium base and it only knows that the site is "Allowed" but not that it actually is disabled.
But yes I agree this should be better communicated, it's certainly not the first topic about this. Hopefully they will sort out the location provider issue soon.
