980578 - permission to access camera and mic at installation

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[dsun218]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140212131424

Steps to reproduce:

At installation, it must not require the permission to access the camera and microphone to turn them on anytime without explicit permission. This is a serious breach of privacy, and the default permission can easily be abused by the browser and/or the websites being accessed through the browser.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

This is for WebRTC. It is a web-feature you opt-in to using if a site makes use of getUserMedia

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-firefox-android-use-permissions-it-requests

Comment 2

[dsun218]

opt-in should happen in specific circumstance and users are well informed, not at Firefox installation without specific context.

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

The Android platform does not extend to opt-in permissions at run-time, currently. Only on package installation.

Comment 4

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #3)
> The Android platform does not extend to opt-in permissions at run-time,
> currently. Only on package installation.

Correct. Android does not allow for opt-in permissions. It's all or nothing. Firefox supports WebRTC, therefore Firefox MUST request these permissions at install time.