1700811 - Show which sites for 'Access your data on x other sites' when installing an extension

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement)

Description

[flightkick]

Attachment: Screenshot of confirmation prompt

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:87.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/87.0

Steps to reproduce:

• Go to the Add-On browser https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/
• Navigate to an Add-On which requires access to 5 different websites
• Click the 'Add to Firefox' button

Actual results:

Firefox prompts for confirmation informing that:

It requires your permission to:

• Access your data for a.example.com
• Access your data for b.example.com
• Access your data for c.example.com
• Access your data on 2 other sites

A 'Learn more about permissions' link is shown which directs the user to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/permission-request-messages-firefox-extensions

Expected results:

For the given example, the prompt does not show any option to view which sites are categorized as 'Access your data on 2 other sites'.
This lack of information limits the user's ability to assess the impact.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'WebExtensions::Untriaged' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Tomislav Jovanovic :zombie]

This info is available in about:addons after you install it, or on AMO before, does that not cover your use case?

Comment 3

[Negritas Sergiu, Desktop QA]

Hello flightkick! Thank you for your contribution!

I will add this enhancement to New in order for our developers to take a look intothis and hopefully it will be taken into consideration in the future.

Thank you!

Comment 4

[Tomislav Jovanovic :zombie]

wontfix for now unless we get a use case not covered by above.