1471723 - Always show an indicator for blocked permission requests in the identity block

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Site Identity, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

Currently, when the user has permanently blocked a specific site from requesting a permission, we show the corresponding permission icon in the identity block with a strike-through. This is to alert the user that some features of the site may not work and to give them the opportunity to revert their decision.

We don't currently do this when the user has set a global default deny for a certain permission, e.g. if they block notification permission prompts by default. It may be in the interest of the user if we still showed a small indicator in the identity block that the site would be interested in getting the permission.

In my idea we would just show the existing popupnotification, but dismissed, so that only its icon is visible. The notification appears again when the user clicks the icon.

This would also give us an interesting permission prompt system where we have two different levels of exposure for websites:

- Getting the standard full-sized, not-easy-to-dismiss permission prompt that most user will interact with.
- Getting a cheaper version where just a little icon appears in the urlbar and the user may choose to click on it, but most won't even notice.

This system might allow us to reward good practices (and punish bad practices) while still keeping web compatibility somewhat intact.

Comment 1

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

Dale is going to prototype this for autoplay.

Comment 2

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

(In reply to Johann Hofmann [:johannh] - PTO July 24th - 31st from comment #0)

> This would also give us an interesting permission prompt system where we
> have two different levels of exposure for websites:

autoplay might be a bit different, but when we redesigned the control center 2 years ago, forcing users to make a decision so that we don't keep a permission request hanging around forever was part of the goals. For something like a request to use the camera, once we have denied the request, we can't have a permission prompt appear if the user clicks the notification icon.