1201961 - Expose about:permissions in Preferences UI.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jan-Ivar Bruaroey [:jib] (needinfo? me)]

(Anne (:annevk) from Bug 933917 comment 3)
> Having centralized permission management is
> absolutely critical as we move the web to an OS-like model.
> 
> I think we should strongly consider merging about:permissions into
> about:preferences.

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

about:permissions is a mess and should not be exposed to users more broadly.

The privacy Control Center work will help replace it.

Comment 2

[Anne (:annevk)]

Could you provide a reference to what "Control Center" is?

Comment 3

[arni2033]

(In reply to Anne (:annevk) from comment #2)
> Could you provide a reference to what "Control Center" is?
bug 1170759

Comment 4

[Anne (:annevk)]

Thank you, that's not at all the same as about:permissions though. Users will need a way to control all the permissions they've been handing out to origins (sites) centrally. Somewhere which indicates what sites last used geolocation, which use up the most storage, etc.

We cannot expect users to remember all the sites, visit them, and then adjust the permissions.

Comment 6

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Dao started a thread on this on firefox-dev.