Why do we need Geode? To allow access to information smarter and more automatic. In fact, you have had similar experiences, such as in-country visit google.com, but will enter google.cn-- because the site is the use of language, region, and other information to judge the deal. And with Geode, you use the Firefox browser and a number of geographical location-related services, such as food Comment, tourist attractions, transportation and navigation, every time you do not have to repeat them in their current location of the.
Browser / Firefox and you are a bridge between Web applications, and the Geode for the expansion of a new bridge, so that your application information to facilitate more intelligent.
It should be noted that, Geode is a transitional measure. Because it has always been in support of advanced technology and comply with the norms of the Mozilla announced that the GIS support, accurate, is the W3C Geolocation Specification
The support will be built in the new version of Firefox. If you want fresh, waiting for the upcoming release of Firefox
3.1beta. In the new version before the release, in order to the current Firefox users, it launched the expansion of the Geode.
Second, Geode and Privacy
If the MS Windows and MS
Office of the closed-off people's information security and privacy concerns, Google browser and then touched a new era of the network concept of privacy. Many users at the beginning of the new understanding of the Geode, may raise the question: how to protect my privacy? But in fact, the protection of privacy does not mean completely closed, but rather "controlled" in users, as long as this, you can decide in certain circumstances, to share their information in exchange for convenience.
The Geode how? See chart below:
As can be seen from the chart, the application of geographical information websites, Geode would be asked by your decision, which provided information: the exact location (10 feet of error) about the location (neighborhood, error of 1 mile), the city. Of course, you can also choose "None", does not share any information.
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