Comment 125 for bug 1100326

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In , Maciej S. Szmigiero (maciejsszmigiero) wrote :

(In reply to Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio) from comment #7)
> How does this compare to the portal service that was recently added for Flatpak and so on? Do we really need both?

Portal service is a limited API for Flatpak containers that internally forwards to Geoclue. Without Flatpak runtime that API is not available.

In contrast to the portal provider this is a complete, native Geoclue API implementation on a state machine (for handling corner cases, etc.) for use in a standalone Firefox.