1027623 - Add a way to grant/deny getUserMedia permissions persistently on Android

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Manual clone of bug 804611.

The desktop UI for WebRTC seems to have evolved to allow persistent permissions. We should check it out.

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Assigning to Wes to take a look. Not a P1, but would be nice to see what level of effort will be needed.

Comment 2

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Desktop's UI for this was actually removed AFAICT, because it allowed background tabs to start the camera or mic without prompting. We could flip it to only allow access from the foreground tab though.

They just store a permission:

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/2c5c8a682efc#l11.94

We could store that as well, but we also need (in the platform?) a way to store which media device was used. That's bug 989094 for us, but since this permission is in the platform, it would need to be there to work correctly...

Comment 3

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Unassigning.

Comment 4

[FI]

Hi, could someone take care on this issue? 
AFAIK gUM implementation of Firefox for Android is much better than Chrome, but lack of persistent option precludes some critical use cases.

Comment 5

[BMO Automation]

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