On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Frederik Braun <fbr...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 11.09.2014 19:04, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Martin Thomson <m...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>>> On 2014-09-11, at 00:56, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote:
>>>> Are we actually partitioning permissions per top-level browsing
>>>> context or could they already accomplish this through an <iframe>?
>>>
>>> As far as I understand it, permissions are based on domain name only, they 
>>> don’t include scheme or port from the origin.  So it’s probably less 
>>> granular than that.
>>
>> That seems somewhat bad.
>>
>
> Yes.
>
> AFAIU (I might be terribly wrong), this is because all of those
> permissions (gUM, Geolocation, Offilne Storage, Fullscreen) are using
> the Permission manager we still have from the Popup Blocker/Cookie
> Manager. This is domain based. Not origin :(
> You can see this in about:permissions.

This is shocking. Making the fundamental design bug of cookies affect
everything else is *really* bad. Is there a bug on file for fixing
this?

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Henri Sivonen
hsivo...@hsivonen.fi
https://hsivonen.fi/
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