Also, there are no journalctl logs generated when this happens. And you can leave the new window with the icons there, or close it. Either way it doesn't seem to make a difference. If you leave it around, and then your webcam/mic usage is over (the meeting ended), then the icons window goes away. So the presence of the icons do indicate whether the webcam/mic are being used or not. If you close the window, you can still use your devices but there is no indication that they are in use.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1925837 Title: New window pops up with webcam/mic icons Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I'm running updated hirsute with the firefox 87.0+build3-0ubuntu4 deb, just as it comes. This system was a fresh install of 20.10 that was then upgraded to 21.04. When I have a tab that will start using my webcam/mic, there is a new ff window that is created with these icons. The window is (more or less) minimized to fit the size of the icons (see screenshot). I can close the window by clicking the normal x, and closing this window does not interrupt my webcam/mic usage. What I normally expect is that when my webcam/mic is being used by some ff tab, the ff/webcam/mic icons are displayed constantly in the top middle of my display. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1925837/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
