2037074 - Handle Geolocation permission on parent process

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Geolocation, task)

Description

[Kagami Rosylight 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

The current permission story of geolocation is deeply sad:

1. The content process pings the parent process for the initial browser-level permission prompt
2. The parent process pings back
3. If it's granted, the content process pings the parent again for the system-level permission prompt
4. The parent process pings back
5. If it's also granted, the content process pings the parent again for the geolocation request
6. The parent process pings back with the geolocation data

The ideal way is:

1. The content process pings the parent process for the geolocation request
2. The parent process figures out the permission story (and opens permission prompt if needed), and ping back with the result

Comment 1

[Kagami Rosylight 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

Attachment: WIP: Bug 2037074 - Add check to RecvAddGeolocationListener