1436640 - Firefox for Android doesn't reject the promise returned by getUserMedia

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[youlix]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Called the navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia method with the parameter { audio: true }.
2. A pop-up showed up to ask me whether sharing or not sharing microphone with the site.
3. Touched on the gray area instead of the 2 buttons.


Actual results:

1. The pop-up disappeared.
2. Nothing happened on the promise returned by the getUserMedia method.


Expected results:

1. The pop-up disappeared.
2. The promise returned by the getUserMedia method should be rejected.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

I suspect that this behaves like geolocation. Not getting a response is a valid response. A response is only returned when the user explicitly denies or accepts the request. Over to WebRTC where there are people who know the spec better.

Comment 2

[Dan Minor [:dminor]]

No response as a valid response makes sense to me. :jib, is that correct?

Comment 3

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

Yes, this works as designed on Android.

FWIW this design predates our semi-modal (undismissable) permission redo in Firefox 53 for desktop (52- used to have less-intrusive disappearing permission prompts even for desktop, but they were removed because their design confused users). 

This leaves a bit of a consistency gap perhaps between Android and desktop, but I haven't seen any good designs to close it (taking over half the screen and refusing to dismiss hardly seems SEMI-modal).

This decision is up to the Android UX folks however. There's no bug in core WebRTC here. Back to the android team.

Comment 4

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

[triage] Inconsistent with desktop but acceptable behavior - non-critical.

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Closing per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473195

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