about:permissions page aka the built-in permissions manager in Firefox, which was introduced with Firefox 6, has been removed in Firefox 45 (which is currently in Nightly). Till now this page has allowed to configure permissions given to websites for storing passwords, geolocation, cookies, Camera, Microphone, pop-up windows, offline storage and other things from one place in Firefox browser.
How to access and manage site-specific permissions in Firefox 45 then?
You can still able to access permissions UI in Firefox 45 without need to visit about:permissions, here is how: Right click on page, select ‘View Page Info’ and select ‘Permissions’ .
If you don’t know Firefox 45 also sees the removal of tab groups and Mozilla has announced it will stop support for complete themes (heavyweight themes) soon in their browser also.
What do you say on this change? Will you miss about:permissions page?
Longingly for this feature, the current option of the ‘ Page Info ‘ is not the same for me.
The problem with the removal of this page is it makes it easier for sites to track you. I recently went to about:permissions in Firefox 44 and deleted a whole bunch of sites I never knew were there. If you’re not aware of them, how are you supposed to go to the web sites pages individually to make changes?
The other annoyance is that Mozilla doesn’t list this as one of the changes it made in the Firefox 45 release notes. I don’t like surprises!
The only direction for these about: pages to go should be toward the open UI. Removing functions goes against humanity itself. The point of upgrading is getting MORE functions (and less bugs) but this is not the first time you find yourself with a handicapped product after upgrading. I’m now deinstalling Firefox and temporarily installing an old version just to reset all permissions exceptions while I can still see them in one place. So where do I go to see a list of all sites which have exceptions in the future? Having such a list is not negotiable.
Please Developers is it ANY way to be added back this module to the FF 46.xxx up and made functional on per global basis ? :-(
They also plan to remove the ability to browse the web in a future version.
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It simply does not work with some websites like Word Online, which overrides the right click button. There is now no way to access permissions.
Page info dialog shows permissions user given to a site, click on site icon next to url > More information > Permissions. Has that helped you?