clear-code / autopermission

Permissions Auto Registerer for Firefox

Download link: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/permissions-auto-registerer/

How to use

Define a preference for websites, like:

pref("extensions.autopermission.sites.<domain>", "<type1>=<value1>, <type2>=<value2>, ...");
pref("extensions.autopermission.sites.<identifier>", "<origin_or_host>: <type1>=<value1>, <type2>=<value2>, ...");

For example:

pref("extensions.autopermission.sites.www.example.com", "popup=1, geo=2, install=2");
pref("extensions.autopermission.sites.test", "test.example.com: popup=1, geo=2, install=2");
pref("extensions.autopermission.sites.test-secure", "https://test.example.com:8080: popup=1");

Any character is available for the identifier, if it is acceptable as a preference name specified as an UTF-8 bytes array. You need to use the format when you hope to apply new permissions only for "https:" version webpages.

To confirm permissions are correctly applied, see about:permissions.

Available types are:

• password: Allow to save passwords to the password manager.
• geo: Allow to access to the geolication API.
• cookie: Allow to store Cookie.
• popup: Allow to open popup windows (ads, etc.)
• indexedDB: Allow to use offline storages.
• fullscreen: Allow to activate DOM fullscreen.
• image: Allow to load image files.
• install: Allow to install addons.
• offline-app: Allow to use offline-cache for web applications.
• camera: Allow to access camera devices.
• microphone: Allow to access microphone devices.
• push: Allow websites to notify users of new messages or updated content.

Available vlaues are:

• 0: Unknown. (clear the stored value and follow to the default preference)
• 1: Allow all.
• 2: Deny all.

For Cookies, there are more choices:

• 0: Unknown. (clear the stored value and follow to the default preference)
• 1: Allow all cookies permanently.
• 2: Deny all cookies permanently.
• 8: Allow all cookies only for the current session.
• 9: Allow first party cookies permanently, and deny all others.
• 10: Allow first party cookies permanently, and allow third party cookeis also permanently only when they are already accepted.

This is mainly designed for corporate-use.

Usecase for MCD

You can control permissions like a security policy, with MCD. For example:

var PERM_DEFAULT = 0;
var PERM_ALLOW   = 1;
var PERM_DENY    = 2;

// list of trusted sites
pref("extensions.autopermission.policy.trusted.sites", "mozilla.com,mozilla.org");

// permissions for trusted sites
pref("extensions.autopermission.policy.trusted.camera",         PERM_ALLOW);
pref("extensions.autopermission.policy.trusted.cookie",         PERM_ALLOW);
pref("extensions.autopermission.policy.trusted.fullscreen",     PERM_ALLOW);
pref("extensions.autopermission.policy.trusted.geo",            PERM_ALLOW);
pref("extensions.autopermission.policy.trusted.image",          PERM_ALLOW);
pref("extensions.autopermission.policy.trusted.indexedDB",      PERM_ALLOW);
pref("extensions.autopermission.policy.trusted.install",        PERM_ALLOW);
pref("extensions.autopermission.policy.trusted.microphone",     PERM_ALLOW);
pref("extensions.autopermission.policy.trusted.offline-app",    PERM_ALLOW);
pref("extensions.autopermission.policy.trusted.password",       PERM_ALLOW);
pref("extensions.autopermission.policy.trusted.popup",          PERM_ALLOW);
pref("extensions.autopermission.policy.trusted.push",           PERM_ALLOW);

// special permissions for trusted sites, based on Firefox's capability settings
// allow/deny to run scripts in the site
pref("extensions.autopermission.policy.trusted.javascript",     PERM_ALLOW);
// allow/deny links to locak files
pref("extensions.autopermission.policy.trusted.localfilelinks", PERM_ALLOW);