1695759 - Confusing camera state shown for Allowed Temporarily + Blocked (Temporarily) at the same time

Status: REOPENED

(Firefox :: Site Permissions, defect, P3)

Description

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

Attachment: RecCameraWithSlashThrough.png

STRs:

1. Have 2+ cameras and open https://jan-ivar.github.io/dummy/gum_several.html
2. Click Request Cam 1 and click Allow in the permission prompt.
3. Click Request Cam 2 and click Don't Allow in the permission prompt.

Expected results:

• No change in permissions from step 3

Actual results:

• Step 3 issues a Temporary Block on new access to all devices
• Confusing privacy indicators: red camera with a slash through it! (See image)

Proposal: dup to Bug 1695757.

Comment 2

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

Re-opening this since review discussions in bug 1609578 revealed that that bug won't entirely fix this problem, so I shouldn't have duped it:
If users hit ☑ Remember this decision + Now Now (or Block or whatever), they will encounter this situation still.

The state may instead be Allowed Temporarily + Block, which is perhaps even a bit more unfortunate: Users may expect it to say "Blocked", but we need "Allowed Temporarily ✖" there to reflect that live capture is happening, and let users click the ✖ to terminate it. Also, when they click it, the "Allowed Temporarily ✖" goes a way and is replaced by nothing. Workaround: refresh the page and Site permissions should show the correct state.