1333253 - Add in a contextualIdentities permission string?

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(WebExtensions :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Andy McKay]

The contextualIdentities API was added in Firefox 53 and given its own permission. I thinking that we should probably give this a permission string so that users who install this add-on are prompted about what it can do.

I'm not sure what the right wording is here though:

"Access and alter your security containers"

Sounds scarier than it should be. Any ideas?

Comment 1

[sdevaney]

Can we say something more descriptive or lay than "security containers"? Do one of these work...?

Access and alter security profiles

Access and alter security parameters

Comment 2

[Jonathan Kingston [:jkt] he/him]

We probably shouldn't conflate with profiles.
We call them "container tabs" in most situations now in product.

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401020

Comment 4

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

The API hasn't had a permission warning since release without issues.
The API is related to the cookies API (cookieStoreId) and that one does not have a permission warning either.
Adding a new warning may surprise extension developers, without significant benefit.
Therefore we'll mark this as WONTFIX.