Open Bug 1877413 Opened 1 year ago Updated 4 months ago

Implement Screen Wake Lock permission settings?

Categories

(Firefox :: Site Permissions, enhancement, P3)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Site Permissions
Type:
enhancement

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People

(Reporter: vhilla, Unassigned)

References

Details

Bug 1589554 implements the Screen Wake Lock API. This API provides websites with a way to request a wake lock, which prevents the system from turning off the device screen.

The specification integrates with the permissions API and recommends an unobtrusive notification. But issue 324 argues for removing this integration. Both Safari and Chrome are supportive of this, as they currently provide no user interface for disabling the API.

Currently, there is no UI around this in Firefox but the pref dom.screenwakelock.enabled can be used to turn off the API. Feedback from Firefox UX is pending, but their recommendation so far was a checkbox and exceptions menu in about:preferences#privacy under "Permissions" without any notification or prompt otherwise.

Severity: -- → N/A
Priority: -- → P3
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