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Location in Firefox 150

BerryvanSleeuwe — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:19:51 GMT

According to https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/150.0/releasenotes/ firefox now prompts to enable location access in Windows security. For convenience it already opens the settings panel. However my security settings are controlled by my company: “Location has been turned off by an admin on this device”. In other words I can’t enable location for Firefox even if I wanted to. I expect this might be true for a lot of companies who have their settings controlled centrally.

As a result, EVERY single time Google or Google maps, or whatever website might want to get location details, the screen goes grey and the Windows Security panel is opened. I can't change anything so this action is useless to me. Apart from the fact that this is a security setting, why enforce this?

Is there any place I can disable this behaviour?

Re: Location in Firefox 150

Vagg — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:50:12 GMT

Disable apps access to notification in your device and this will stop. Use this from privacy menu in windows settings. I hope that helps

Re: Location in Firefox 150

BerryvanSleeuwe — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:34:44 GMT

No, didn't help, even after reboot I still have the same behavior. Also I don't think it's a notification. Someone demands me to update system security configuration. I only notice it with Google applications, but it's only in Firefox.

Re: Location in Firefox 150

sohaibqadri — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:25:47 GMT

It's this bug .

See https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1st88nv/comment/oi17qdp/.

@siffemcon replied to my thread.

Re: Location in Firefox 150

BerryvanSleeuwe — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:38:55 GMT

Thanks. Indeed that worked. Google as in the location list and set to accept, so I changed it to blocked.