564397 - Geolocation never fires callbacks if user closes the prompt toolbar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Geolocation, defect)

Description

[tarquin]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

Script does this:
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function () {alert(1)},function () {alert(2)});

User is prompted for permission.
Prompt toolbar has "share" "don't share" "remember" "close this message".
User clicks the "close this message" button, which is equivalent to "don't share", since it means the script will never get a location.
The callback functions are not executed. The script has no way to detect that the user can no longer give permission.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Prompt for geolocation
2. Click the [X] button on the prompt toolbar

Actual Results:  
Callback function is not executed

Expected Results:  
The errorCallback function should be executed, with code PERMISSION_DENIED.

Comment 1

[Bramus]

Behavior described above also present on Mac OS (Using Firefox 4.0b3).

Additionally:
- CPU load shoots up when closing the request
- All navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(fn,fn) requests after that fail, no matter what you do (close, accept, deny)

Comment 2

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

Bramus: how are you closing the prompt?

Comment 3

[Bramus]

Josh: If I recall it correctly, in Firefox4b3 (on Mac), the prompt icon (which is shown next to the favicon in the URL/address bar) would disappear when focusing an other element of the UI. Could also be that the dialog had a "close" button on it ... don't remember exactly as I've upgraded to Firefox4b4 by now.

I see that in Firefox4b4 this has been fixed and that the symptoms I described above are no long present.

Regards,
Bram.

Comment 4

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

no, i do not think the expected result is correct.  closing the prompt with X doesn't mean that you made a decision to deny.

In FF4, there isn't a X any longer for the notification.  You can ignore the new prompt, and if you do, the page will not get any notification... which is fine.