1878830 - navigator.getUserMedia() doesn’t request for permission in addon ported to firefox android

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(GeckoView :: General, defect)

Description

[pavanj914]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({
video: true,
});

doesn't request camera permissions in extension context

desktop firefox:
addon context - works
website context - works

firefox android:
addon context - doesn’t work
website context - works: https://blog.minhazav.dev/research/html5-qrcode

Actual results:

no permission requests happened

Expected results:

camera permission dialogue shall pe popped up

Comment 1

[pavanj914]

i tried getUserMedia in popup.js

Comment 2

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

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

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Comment 3

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Moving to General