Google adds location awareness to Google Chrome

Mobile browsers are increasingly adopting location awareness as one of their main features such as Firefox Mobile and the mobile version of Safari. Google Chrome recently added geolocation support to the latest developers’ version of Chrome. It works by approximating your location based on WiFi signals around you. It is obviously not as accurate as locking onto your GPS signal, but the approximation is more accurate than detecting your location based on your IP address.

The addition of geolocation was probably intended for use in the upcoming Chrome OS. This feature is still at a very early stage; the UI is incomplete and it doesn’t remember settings you save. You can activate geolocation by running the latest developers’ version browser with “–enable-geolocation.”

Via [ReadWriteWeb]