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Why does Firefox need to access my phone's camera?

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MJBCon
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Specific permissions I have questions about include:

take pictures and videos record audio

Specific permissions I have questions about include: take pictures and videos record audio

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philipp
philipp
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hello MJBCon, unfortunately due to android's permission model permissions have to be accepted upfront and not for example the first time an app makes use of a certain one. the reason why permissions are requested by firefox on android is explained in How does Firefox for Android use the permissions it requests?

access to hardware controls in particular is used for technologies like webrtc: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/09/17/webrtc-now-available-across-mobile-and-desktop-with-new-firefox-for-android-compatibility/

of course your camera/microphone will not turned on automatically, but there will be a dialog that asks you to choose if you want to do so each time a page is requesting that. for a demo how this is done please visit: https://apprtc.appspot.com