tmplat blocked by navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition()

[leesei]

When a template is triggered, only log of progress bar to 30% is shown and nothing happens then.
Minutes later it will creates popup notifying the template is done.

09:52:51.070 Updating bar progress to 10%
09:52:51.083 log.js:2 Updating bar progress to 20%
09:52:51.086 log.js:2 Updating bar progress to 30%
# halts and no more log
# ...
09:59:11.439 log.js:2 Updating bar progress to 40%
09:59:11.442 log.js:2 Updating bar progress to 60%
09:59:11.443 log.js:2 Updating bar progress to 70%
09:59:11.444 log.js:2 Updating bar progress to 100%
09:59:11.452 log.js:2 Used the Markdown template
09:59:11.458 log.js:2 Updating statistics

[leesei]

I ran with source code and figured out that tmplat is blocked by navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition() call.

11:01:04.544 log.js:2 Creating popup list item for the Short template
11:01:04.547 log.js:2 Creating popup list item for the Markdown template
11:01:04.548 log.js:2 Creating popup list item for the Selection in Markdown template
11:01:04.554 log.js:2 Creating popup list item for the Short template
11:01:04.555 log.js:2 Creating popup list item for the Markdown template
11:01:04.556 log.js:2 Creating popup list item for the Selection in Markdown template
11:01:59.434 log.js:2 Widest textual item in popup is 260px
11:02:03.443 log.js:2 Sending the following message to the extension controller
11:02:03.443 log.js:2 {data: {…}, type: "popup"}
11:02:03.456 log.js:2 Checking the following tabs for the active tab...
11:02:03.457 log.js:2 [{…}]
11:02:03.479 log.js:2 Checking activity of supported extension 'hehijbfgiekmjfkfjpbkbammjbdenadd'
11:02:03.481 log.js:2 Checking activity of supported extension 'miedgcmlgpmdagojnnbemlkgidepfjfi'
11:02:03.482 log.js:2 Checking activity of supported extension 'fnfnbeppfinmnjnjhedifcfllpcfgeea'
11:02:03.483 log.js:2 Checking activity of supported extension 'icoloanbecehinobmflpeglknkplbfbm'
11:02:03.510 log.js:2 Extracting the URLs from the following tabs...
11:02:03.511 log.js:2 [{…}]
11:02:03.511 log.js:2 Chrome automatically detected language: en
11:02:03.512 log.js:2 Found the following cookies...
11:02:03.512 log.js:2 (7) [{…}, {…}, {…}, {…}, {…}, {…}, {…}]
11:02:03.513 log.js:2 The following data was retrieved from the content script...
11:02:03.514 log.js:2 undefined
11:11:47.587 log.js:2 Retrieved the following geolocation information...
11:11:47.587 log.js:2 Position {coords: Coordinates, timestamp: 1524021107498}
11:11:47.589 log.js:2 Using the following data to render Selection in Markdown...
11:11:47.589 log.js:2 {fragment: "", query: "", file: "", directory: "/sessions", path: "/sessions", …}
11:11:47.592 log.js:2 The following was generated as a result...
11:11:47.593 log.js:2 
11:11:47.594 log.js:2 Selection in Markdown output was empty
11:11:47.597 log.js:2 Finished handling a Popup request
11:11:47.610 log.js:2 Opened desktop notification: b014af74-19aa-4e91-99c7-fad050fd6a1c

I "fixed" the issue locally by disabling geolocation:

@@ -846,6 +846,9 @@ addAdditionalData = (tab, data, id, editable, shortcut, link, callback) ->
         done null, {locale}
 
     (done) ->
+      log.warn 'Disabling geolocation'^M
+      done null, coords: {}^M
+^M
       # Retrieve the geolocation from the client.
       navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition (position) ->
         log.debug 'Retrieved the following geolocation information...', position

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Note sure if this is related:
html5 - Is there a way to check if geolocation has been DECLINED with Javascript? - Stack Overflow

This is the output when when running in background.html:

navigator.permissions.query({'name': 'geolocation'})
.then( permission => console.log(permission) )
PermissionStatus {state: "prompt", onchange: null}

Maybe using this options to navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition() would help:

var options = {
  enableHighAccuracy: false,
  timeout: 0,
  maximumAge: Infinity
};