1864652 - Add support for Global Privacy Control Preferences in GeckoView Runtime

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(GeckoView :: General, task, P1)

Description

[Mihai Adrian Carare [:mcarare]]

There are 3 Gecko preferences that need to be exposed on the GeckoView runtime to support GPC, including:

privacy.globalprivacycontrol.enabled and
privacy.globalprivacycontrol.pbmode.enabled and
privacy.globalprivacycontrol.functionality.enabled

Details here: https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2021/10/28/implementing-global-privacy-control/

According to the specifications available at this moment, GPC should be enabled by default in private browsing ( Focus + Fenix PB). This should likely be cobtrolled in the client apps rather than in GeckoView.

Comment 1

[Mihai Adrian Carare [:mcarare]]

Attachment: Bug 1864652 - Expose settings for Global Privacy Control.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/0179fa4a38ea
Expose settings for Global Privacy Control. r=geckoview-reviewers,ohall,amejiamarmol

Comment 3

[Norisz Fay [:noriszfay]]

Backed out for causing globalPrivacyControl related failures

Backout link

Push with failures

Failure log

Comment 4

[Mihai Adrian Carare [:mcarare]]

Added changes in dom/workers/test/navigator_worker.js for fixing the failing tests. Ran the failing tests on the patch and they passed without errors.
I only half understand the initial intention for adding the android exceptions so I am tagging the original author in order to confirm those changes. Thanks in advance!

Comment 5

[Benjamin VanderSloot [:bvandersloot]]

I r+'d on Phabricator. Thanks for tagging me in!

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/b11b486b43c8
Expose settings for Global Privacy Control. r=geckoview-reviewers,ohall,amejiamarmol,bvandersloot,emilio

Comment 7

[Narcis Beleuzu [:NarcisB]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b11b486b43c8