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I used to use it a lot a few months back "mapping" my town and I had noticed that it would go at full strength even when I was staying in the same place for hours. Would it be possible to gradually slow down the collections when it detects that the user isn't moving?

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There used to be a mode to geo-fence data collection, i.e. harvest only outside of a certain area, but I don't see it anymore.

geo-fencing was extremely rarely used. I think we had single digit numbers of people who enabled the feature and understood what it meant.

We decided to cut out geofencing because it was confusing to most people and reducing the number of knobs and dials on a program is usually a good thing.

We've got a bug filed to hook the accelerometers though: https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/issues/1107

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