1543061 - [Geolocation] The permission prompt has an inconsistent behaviour for when the user allows or doesn't allow to share the location

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Geolocation, defect)

Description

[Oana Botisan, Desktop QA]

Attachment: imgpsh_fullsize_anim.gif

Affected versions

• Firefox 66.0.2
• Firefox 67.0b9
• FIrefox 68.0a1

Affected platforms

• Windows 10 x64
• Ubuntu 18.04 x64
• macOS 10.13

Steps to reproduce

1. Go to https://www.w3schools.com/HTML/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_geolocation_error
2. Click on "Try It" button.
3. On the prompt click on "Allow Location Access".
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 a few times.
5. Click on "Try it" button and then click on "Don't Allow".
6. Repeat step 5.

Expected result

• The permission prompt should be displayed again.

Actual result

• Nothing happens, the prompt is not displayed until you refresh the page.

Regression range

• This is a regression. I can't reproduce the issue on Nightly from 2017-02-02. I will try to find the regression range as soon as possible.

Additional notes

• Look at the attached gif.
• This issue happens on all the sites that uses geolocation.

Comment 1

[Oana Botisan, Desktop QA]

I managed to find a regression range:

• last good: 2017-01-16 (20170116030326)
• first bad: 2017-01-17 (20170117030218)
• pushlog: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=8eaf154b385bbe0ff06155294ccf7962aa2d3324&tochange=3e275d37a06236981bff399b7d7aa0646be3fee7

Comment 2

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

The most likely candidate in that list looks like bug 1206232.

Comment 3

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

This is our temporary blocking to prevent permission spam. It works as intended.