956854 - Implement front end Permission UI for WebRTC

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[sysop5410]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I compile seamonkey 2.23 under mageia3 linux with WebRTC and gstreamer.
I load the site contains WebRTC application for testing it.



Actual results:

WebRTC core initialized, but not shown dialog to allow/disallow/select microphone and webcam, and no access is granted.

I tried to set media.navigator.permission.disabled;true , the microphone and webcam started working normally, but it is does not allow to control access.


Expected results:

Normal operation like as firefox: after loading the site shown dialog to access to the microphone and webcam, allowing access and use the application on the site.

Comment 1

[sysop5410]

iceape-2.22 has similar bug.

Comment 2

[Philip Chee]

This is a known issue. We don't have any support for webRTC at the moment.

Comment 3

[sysop5410]

I can use webRTC in seamonkey, it is really working, but webcam and microphone is always enabled or always disabled by default.  


about:config  media.navigator.permission.disabled;true

Comment 4

[sysop5410]

No other way to enable access to microphone and webcam. It is uncomfortable and possible insecure.

Comment 5

[Philip Chee]

(In reply to sysop5410 from comment #3)
> I can use webRTC in seamonkey, it is really working, but webcam and
> microphone is always enabled or always disabled by default.
I see. I've changed the Summary for this bug slightly

Comment 6

[Isaac Schemm]

As long as SeaMonkey doesn't have a WebRTC permissions UI, would it make sense to include a setting or toolbar button to toggle media.navigator.permission.disabled?

On one hand, this would make SeaMonkey compatible with WebRTC applications (mostly); on the other hand, leaving media.navigator.permission.disabled=true after you're done with it is not a good idea and we might not want users to do that by accident.

Comment 7

[Isaac Schemm]

I've made an extension that adds a toolbar button to toggle the setting on and off, if that helps anyone.

https://github.com/IsaacSchemm/webrtc-permissions-ui-toggle

Comment 8

[Isaac Schemm]

Once this is implemented, there should also be a way to install and/or disable OpenH264.