1412380 - Location Access Prompts are too spammy in Private Browsing Mode (because there's no "remember" checkbox)

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect, P3)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

STR:
 1. Open a Private Browsing window.
 2. Visit https://www.becu.org/

--> you'll be prompted for Location access.  Click "Don't allow".

 3. Ctrl+Shift+click any of the informational links (to pages on the same domain).  This will open the page in a new tab and switch to that tab.

ACTUAL RESULTS:
 - You're prompted for location access again.
 - If you click to open more links in new tabs, each of them will prompt.
 - There is no "remember this decision" checkbox (presumably because it's private browsing and we don't want to store anything persistent about sites you've visited.)

EXPECTED RESULTS:
 - We should expose a "Remember this decision" checkbox, and just store the remembered-decision in some temporary location that gets cleaned up at the end of the Private Browsing session -- much like we do for cookies when you log into some site while in Private Browsing mode.

Comment 1

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

It seems like there are several groups currently wanting permissions to be able to get isolated by private/non-private browsing and also container tabs, so this might actually become a thing. Until then, this bug isn't really actionable because we're lacking the prerequisite: there's no "temporary location" for permissions at the moment.

We should probably file a bug in Core::Permission Manager to track that work (there might be one already, not sure).

Another question here is: do users actually want the behavior you described, or would they rather be confused whether the "remember this decision" checkbox will leak the website to outside of private mode?

Comment 2

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Marking P3 and I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1422056 as a blocker to this. :johannh - feel free to move that bug to Permission Manager if you think that's a better component.