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> Global permissions management: Permission prompts, especially for notifications, have gotten out of control and users must deny them individually at every sit
by gkya 9y ago
> Global permissions management: Permission prompts, especially for notifications, have gotten out of control and users must deny them individually at every site that offers them. Firefox will provide users with a way to disable permission prompts globally for Location, Camera, Microphone, and Notifications. (Firefox 59)
THANK YOU! I hope this will stop the notification boxes implemented in JS too. Using the web has become a whack-a-mole game with each website requiring me to tell it off ten times unitl I can get to the content.
- mikelward 9y agoI would gladly disable notification prompts. A number of sites I rarely visit show them. There's a reason I visit them rarely, and it's not because I forget to! But camera and microphone? They seem useful for Skype, Hangouts, and other opt-in use cases. Are people seeing those prompts so much they're annoyed by them? What's the mechanism to opt back in for selected sites?
- mikelward 9y agoAppears to be partially covered by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1434597 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1434597. Not clear it will be fixed before launch.
- gkya 9y agoNotifications are the most frequent offenders, in my experience, and it's followed by the Location one. It seems to me that they'll provide four individual settings one for each permission in order to optionally globally disable the relative one. I don't think it's going to be one button to kill them all though. I'll disable cam, mic and notifications, but I do share my location to some websites very occasionally.
- mikelward 9y agoYeah. But it looks like the way it works is you say "Don't ask again" on e.g. microphone, then there's no good way to deal with some new site where you actually want to use your mic. I guess the site can detect the permission denial. But making the website show browser-specific instructions for how to disable the global opt-out seems really suboptimal. The browser is where browser-specific specific UI belongs!
- gkya 9y agoWell I hope they'll add a way to whitelist for that. It's unfortunate that we need whitelists and blacklists for everything. As an irrelevant rant, I can say that I miss xombrero so much. It was so nice being able to have all your browser config in a couple files, in plain text. These days I'm waiting to see if the Next browser will become a viable option.