<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 6:08 AM, bobbuun <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobbuun@hotmail.com" target="_blank">bobbuun@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">If it goes away without the replacement, are all of its functions currently replicated elsewhere? In cursorily looking around just now, I didn't see any other place to turn off (globally) most of those options.<br>
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EG: Location, Camera, Microphone, Full Screen and Push Notifications don't seem to have another place to turn them off globally. (In main release anyway.)</blockquote><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I don't think that matters since about:permissions is unsupported UI so just because an option exists there doesn't mean it's supported and will continue to work. I think many of those global options already aren't currently officially supported and most just map to about:config prefs which can be flipped at the user's own risk with the disclaimer that about:config provides.<br><br>To put this another way, I was recently suggesting we remove the notifications section from about:permissions in 44 so that we don't ship with it in the initial version with push since disabling push/notifications globally isn't something that I want to support. Users can simply not allow or block the functionality for specific sites. For every binary option we support it doubles the number of combinations to test and I'll argue we don't have the resources to support this doubling.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Francesco Lodolo [:flod] <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:flod@lodolo.net" target="_blank">flod@lodolo.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Is there any data from Telemetry confirming that this page is actually unknown to most users?<br>
<a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/permissions-manager-give-ability-store-passwords-set-cookies-more" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/permissions-manager-give-ability-store-passwords-set-cookies-more</a></blockquote><div> <br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I have started a discussion on this page to get it removed as it should have never existed: <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/permissions-manager-give-ability-store-passwords-set-cookies-more/discuss/6371">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/permissions-manager-give-ability-store-passwords-set-cookies-more/discuss/6371</a></div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Also a couple of articles about Hello tell users to rely on about:permissions to fix problems with camera/microphone.<br>
And until a few days ago we were telling people to use it to manage Push
permissions (now we have UI in prefs with Firefox 44 and later).<span class=""></span><br></blockquote></div><br></div>These were mistakes. This feature was never intended to be exposed in user-facing documentation so any references should be removed. I had them removed from that push page already<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">. The authors of that page weren't familiar with permissions.xul or the support level of about:permissions. BTW. push isn't shipping before Fx44 so the earlier versions aren't really important.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">If we have the replacement like I proposed then we could have about:permissions redirect to the new page…<br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">MattN</div><br></div></div>