Open Bug 1239854 Opened 8 years ago Updated 10 months ago

there should be a preference to disable notifications and future requests for permissions

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Settings UI
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox46 --- affected

People

(Reporter: edwong, Unassigned)

Details

Firefox should consider that all user interrupt features should an affordance to disable and reject all future permissions requests.
Do we have a way to disable permissions globally, now that about:permissions is gone? My impression is that we're moving toward per-site permissions with the control center, but I haven't been following that work.
* You can block every type of permission on per-origin basis already
* Geolocation was added in Firefox 3.5 and we haven't had a need to add this before…
* This doubles the size of the testing/support matrix which I think engineering and QA would both oppose
* This seems like a power user option which an add-on can easily add.

Given the above, I don't see a compelling reason to support this at this time.
Severity: normal → S3
Component: Notifications and Alerts → Settings UI
Product: Toolkit → Firefox
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