562429 - geolocation permissions should be in Preferences->Privacy

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Bayle Shanks]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100308 Iceweasel/3.5.8 (like Firefox/3.5.8)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100308 Iceweasel/3.5.8 (like Firefox/3.5.8)

According to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/, in order to revoke geolocation permission, you currently have to navigate to the site that you gave permission to, then go to Page Info->Permissions. This is counterintuitive, and makes it hard to undo permissions given when you don't remember the exact URL that requested it.

All geolocation permissions should also be accessible in Preferences->Privacy, like cookies.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

Totally agree that this is a problem, but we would like to solve a few other UI problems simultaneously as well.  Boriss is now working on the UI for this, and here is a previous proposal that I had worked on: http://people.mozilla.com/~faaborg/files/firefox4Mockups/prefPaneWebSites-i2.png