Q: maps can't find current location
I've discovered a strange interaction between Safari and location services (and perhaps my Airport Extreme router. If I activate "Private Browsing" in Safari, many location services routines fail; for example, Maps can't find my current location; Find my Mac can't find my Mac; the Date & Time prefs panel cannot set the time zone automatically.
Sometmies toggling everything I can think of (location services and apps using it in the Privacy Pane of Security System Preferences Panel,iCloud Prefs, the choice to set time zone automatically, etc.).
Sometimes using a commercial VPN (VyperVPN) with Safari will trigger this problem.
However, none of this seems to cause troubles if I'm not using my Airport Extreme 802.11ac router. I just spent an hour at a local Starbucks, and the services all worked with the VPN using a server in Austin, TX (I'm in northern CA). Even at home, with the MacBook Pro sitting behind my router, all the services work, even with the VPN on and its server in TX, if I'm using the Chromium-based Epic Privacy Browser.
Has anyone else had such issues?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.3), Safari 7.0.4
Posted on May 22, 2014 1:06 PM