edit: I lied. When I click on the button, the button turns blue … but that is it. Nothing else. I use the page with Windows 10 and Chrome browser on another machine, and yes, once permission is given, it opens with a new weather page that is local to me. Not with Zorin though.
No but I just wanted to bring your attention that location permission pops up on the left side and when you enable it, then only you’ll be able to use the location search option.
Some people miss that and I wanted to make sure that it’s not the case with you.
It could also happen that you blocked the location access for this site. If that’s the case you should see a red dot like this in the browser:
Thank you for your input. I m familiar with the feature. Works for me in Windows/Chrome as you describe, but not Zorin. It’s either the OS or the Chromium Browser … I GUESS but I don’t see any controls in either for location.
Also works properly in Chrome OS on a Chromebook.
Edit: Found location control in Chromium, and it is set to ask. I can also whitelist. I turned it off, then back on. The page then ASKED and I said ALLOW, … but after that, no location detection.
i am using bodhi linux (also ubuntu lts-based) and don’t get tracking on from either map or the weather page you shared so i can’t say what the issue is exactly, but even when i logged in to open street map it didn’t show my location.
Some of my research indicates a probability its a Chromium browser bug. Not sure yet, but googling the error shows some similar problems. I have a thread open over at Chromium browser forum, but no reply yet,
I sure appreciate your efforts. Maybe we are both discovering something.
Edit:
I just now received the following from the Chromium support forum. Says basically, it’s a browser bug.
seems like you found what is likely as close as you’ll get to an answer thought i couldn’t find in either link any reference to a fix proposed or otherwise. it sounds a bit like a few months ago when google changed something on their end and the thunderbird email client couldn’t connect to gmail accounts. hopefully they get it sorted soon.