How to manage your photographic camera and microphone permissions with Firefox

From Firefox, you tin can enable or block sites from accessing any ane of your device's cameras and microphones. There are many different ways to enable or block camera and microphone permissions depending upon the device that you're using. This article outlines each method below.

Table of Contents

  • 1 Utilise prompts to allow or cake photographic camera and microphone permissions for a site
  • 2 Use the Firefox Options Preferences Settings carte du jour to alter camera and microphone permissions
    • 2.one Change camera permissions
    • 2.2 Change microphone permissions
  • 3 Utilise Firefox'southward address bar to clear camera or microphone permissions for a site
  • iv Use Firefox'southward Page Info Permissions dialog to alter photographic camera and microphone permissions
  • v Use Your Android device's settings menu to alter photographic camera and microphone permissions
  • six Use Your iOS device'due south settings card to alter camera and microphone permissions

Use prompts to allow or block camera and microphone permissions for a site

To use prompts to allow or block camera and microphone permissions for a site that uses these features:

  1. Open Firefox and go to the desired site.
  2. A confirmation pop-up displays asking if you desire to share your device's photographic camera and microphone with that site.
    Camera permissions Fx89
  3. Select the Think this decision checkbox if yous want Firefox to call back your selections for this site and then that they can be used by default in the future.
  4. Click the Permit button if you want to share these devices with the site.
  5. Click the Block button if y'all don't desire to share these devices with the site.

Delight note that y'all may non exist able to utilise certain features or the site altogether if y'all block photographic camera and microphone access.

Use the Firefox Options Preferences Settings carte du jour to change photographic camera and microphone permissions

Change camera permissions

  1. In the Card bar at the top of the screen, click and select . Click the menu button Fx89menuButton and select .
  2. Click from the left carte du jour.
  3. Scroll down to the Permissions section.
  4. Click the Settings… button for the Photographic camera option.
    Firefox displays the websites with saved Permit or Cake permission.
    Camera Permission Settings - Options page
  5. Use the Allow/Block selector to modify permission for the website. You can remove the site by selecting it from the list and clicking the Remove Website.
  6. Select the Block new requests asking to access your camera checkbox if you do not want to give any other sites access to your photographic camera.
  7. Click the Save Changes push.

Change microphone permissions

  1. In the Menu bar at the acme of the screen, click and select . Click the carte button Fx89menuButton and select .
  2. Click from the left menu.
  3. Gyre downward to the Permissions section.
  4. Click the Settings… button for the Microphone option.
    Firefox displays the websites with saved Permit or Block permission.
    Microphone Permission Settings - Options page
  5. Utilize the Allow/Block selector to change permission for the website. Yous can remove the site past selecting it from the list and clicking the Remove Website.
  6. Select the Block new requests asking to admission your microphone checkbox if yous do non desire to give whatever other sites access to your microphone.
  7. Click the Salve Changes push.

Apply Firefox's address bar to articulate camera or microphone permissions for a site

  1. Click the permissions Fx87PermissionsIcon icon that displays in the accost bar on the left.
    • Any relevant permission statuses for the current site are displayed in the Site Permissions panel.
    Fx87PermissionsPanel
  2. Click the X side by side to Allowed , Immune Temporarily, Blocked or Blocked Temporarily to clear the status then that Firefox will inquire again for permission when you next visit the site.

Employ Firefox's Folio Info Permissions dialog to modify camera and microphone permissions

If a page does not prompt you for permission, you can apply the panel in Firefox'due south Folio Info window to gear up a custom permission for the Use the camera or Use the microphone setting. (One way to open the Page Info window for a website is to use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + I command + I while you are on the page; for other means, encounter the Firefox Page Info window commodity.) In the Folio Info window, select at the height:

Fx95PageInfoPermissions-microphone

To gear up a custom permission, uncheck Use Default for the setting and so choose Permit or Cake.

Use Your Android device'southward settings menu to change camera and microphone permissions

If you've turned off camera or microphone access, you tin can turn on those permissions by accessing your device Settings > Apps menu. From there y'all can enable the photographic camera and microphone permissions from the Permissions submenu for the Firefox app.

Use Your iOS device's settings menu to change camera and microphone permissions

If you've turned off photographic camera or microphone admission, y'all can plough on your microphone or camera permissions by accessing the device's Settings > Privacy menu.

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