1742728 - Geolocation OS-level permission changes are not captured by browser

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Permission Manager, defect, P3)

Description

[marcos]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.1 Safari/605.1.15

Steps to reproduce:

On MacOS, for instance:

1. Go to, for instance: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_geolocation.asp
2. Click on "Try it"
3. Allow geolocation
4. Add the following code to the developer console:

x = navigator.permissions.query({name: "geolocation"});
w = await x;
w.onchange = e => {console.log("changged", e)}

5. Go to MacOS's System Preferences for Location Services
6. Disallow Firefox from using location services by unpicking the box

Actual results:

Nothing.

Expected results:

Changing the system level permission for Firefox should cause the event on "w" (PermissionStatus) to fire.

Comment 1

[marcos]

@johann, this might be a "os permissions-wide" issue. In MacOS at least, it might also impact things like revoking Camera, Microphone, etc. at the OS level. Any suggestion about how we might address this? (not a huge issue, but it does mean that the browser's permission store and the OS's permission store can get out of sync).

Comment 2

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

Yes, this is likely an issue for the entire browser, we've discussed the "new" MacOS permission model extensively in bug 1494172 and I guess whoever ends up working on that should look at fixing up the permissions API as well.

Comment 3

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

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:timhuang, could you have a look please?

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