1192914 - Always ask for permission on user action, even if permission had been permanently disabled

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Site Permissions, defect)

Description

[eorroe]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.130 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I'll be using the `navigator.geolocation` as an example:

1. Ask for geolocation permission on click of button
2. User denys, then later figures out why geolocation is needed


Actual results:

Permission is permanently denied.
 
User now has to go through the browser's UI or look through the settings on mobile to allow permission


Expected results:

To always ask for permission on user gesture.

User shouldn't have to go through the browser's UI or settings on mobile to allow permission

This should work just like native apps. Very easy, as a User I would notice that a certain gesture/event will ask me for permission again, and will want to use the site's way of doing that.

As of right now you can request without user gesture, then its denied permanently. That's fine and should stay that way, unless asked by user gesture. So you can have both ways.

Comment 1

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Thanks for the suggestion, eorroe.

We will be revisiting our permission door hangers and notifications in bug 1097629.

Comment 2

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Bug 696283 is another take on geolocation permissions UI.

Comment 3

[eorroe]

I believe this was changed, yet I'm seeing the problem where when I do allow the permission, and the user action is dispatched it keeps asking over and over. This should only happen for "permanently disabled"

Comment 4

[eorroe]

Well there is an option for a drop down to always allow, but I think once I press allow perhaps don't ask again for the temporary allow until page refreshed?