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Why would Firefox use my camera?

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jsn7713
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While I was using another app I received a notification from my phone that Firefix was using my camera. Why?

While I was using another app I received a notification from my phone that Firefix was using my camera. Why?

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Kevin
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You had loaded a website that requested the camera permission. Firefox itself does not use the camera. It only forwards requests from websites.

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

jsn7713
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What website was that?

Kevin
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One of the ones you had open. We have also seen some reports of ad networks requesting access to cameras/microphones.