Permanently allow Chrome to access location

Recently, Google Chrome keeps loosing the ability to detect my location. When I open Google Maps, it has the icon indicating This site has been blocked from accessing your location and when I click it, a dialog containing Location is turned off in Mac system preferences is shown:

Location is turned off in Mac system preferences, This site has been blocked from accessing your location

So I have to go to Enable Location Services:

Need to Enable Location Services for Google Chrome again

But I am sure that I have done this several times recently. It seems that this setting is lost regularly (maybe for every Chrome auto-update?). How can I make this setting permanent?


This is tracked here (I think.) Sounds like it's fixed and hopefully will be corrected in a coming chrome version.


This setting is permanent from the System's perspective, so this is a bug with Google Chrome. You're probably right that the auto-update process is causing problems.

You can try completely uninstalling Chrome and installing it, since that might fix some installation issue that was causing this to manifest.