785932 - No way to clear doorhanger settings set in a web app

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Web Apps (PWAs), defect, P3)

Description

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

Doorhanger settings are normally cleared from the URL bar long press context menu (with the "Site Settings..." option). However, since there is no URL bar in web apps, there is no way to clear these settings.

Comment 1

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

I don't have a strong desire to do this, but maybe we can set up something in about:apps i.e. add a "Clear Settings" option to the context menu which would just blow away the profile?

Comment 2

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

A case that has been raised periodically is permission management: once you say an app can do something, like access your geolocation, how do you unsay that?  Android doesn't expose this for native apps either, and their security model has traditionally been all-or-nothing, with permissions granted at install and revoked at uninstall.

But Android is beginning to add support for user twiddling of individual permissions (via the App Ops Starter app).  And in any case the Android runtime implements Mozilla's security model, which does let users twiddle individual permissions.  Plus FxOS exposes this via Settings > App Permissions.  So it seems like the Android runtime should too.

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Per bug 1235869, we're going to disable the Android web runtime, so we won't fix this bug in it.

(This is part of a bulk resolution of bugs in the Firefox for Android::Web Apps component, from which I attempted to exclude bugs that are not specific to the runtime, but it's possible that I included one accidentally.  If so, I'm sorry, and please reopen the bug!)