1267850 - requestPermission promise-based syntax doesn't work when the user selects Not Now

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1259148

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Notifications and Alerts, defect)

Description

[xavier.figueroa]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0
Build ID: 20160425004018

Steps to reproduce:

<button onclick="enableNotifications()">Enable</button>
function enableNotifications() {
	  if (!("Notification" in window)) {
	    console.log("This browser does not support desktop notification");
	  }else if (Notification.permission === 'denied'){
		  alert("Previously Denied. review your browser settings");
	  }else if (Notification.permission === 'default'){
		  Notification.requestPermission().then(function(result) {
			  if (result === 'denied') {
				  alert("Denied. review your browser settings");
			    return;
			  }
			  if (result === 'default') {
			    alert('The permission request was dismissed.');//chrome only
			    return;
			  }
			  if (result === 'granted') {
				    alert('Successfully enabled.');
				    return;
			  }
			});
	  }else {
		  alert("already enabled");
	  }
	}

1-fire the function enableNotifications() by clicking the enable button
2-Click Not Now or Close de dialog "Would you like to receive notifications from this site?"


Actual results:

no alert showed (it works in chrome)


Expected results:

alert showing the message "The permission request was dismissed."

Comment 1

[Lina Butler (ex-Mozilla)]

Thanks for the report! This should be fixed in Nightly (49) and will make its way to Aurora (48) soon. I'll also request uplift to Beta (47) later this week.