How to manage your camera and microphone permissions with Firefox

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

Table of Contents

  • 1 Use prompts to allow or cake photographic camera and microphone permissions for a site
  • two Use the Firefox Options Preferences Settings menu to change photographic camera and microphone permissions
    • 2.1 Modify photographic camera permissions
    • 2.2 Change microphone permissions
  • 3 Utilize Firefox's address bar to clear camera or microphone permissions for a site
  • 4 Use Firefox's Page Info Permissions dialog to alter camera and microphone permissions
  • five Use Your Android device's settings menu to change photographic camera and microphone permissions
  • 6 Use Your iOS device's settings menu to change camera and microphone permissions

Utilise prompts to allow or block photographic 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 popular-up displays asking if yous want to share your device'southward photographic camera and microphone with that site.
    Camera permissions Fx89
  3. Select the Remember this decision checkbox if yous want Firefox to remember your selections for this site so that they can be used past default in the time to come.
  4. Click the Permit button if you want to share these devices with the site.
  5. Click the Block button if you lot don't want to share these devices with the site.

Please note that you may not be able to use sure features or the site altogether if y'all block photographic camera and microphone admission.

Utilize the Firefox Options Preferences Settings menu to change photographic camera and microphone permissions

Change camera permissions

  1. In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click and select . Click the card button Fx57Menu and select . Click the menu push Fx89menuButton and select .

  2. Click from the left menu.
  3. Roll down to the Permissions section.
  4. Click the Settings… button for the Camera option.
    Firefox displays the websites with saved Permit or Block permission.
    Camera Permission Settings - Options page
  5. Apply 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 photographic camera checkbox if you lot do not desire to requite whatever other sites admission to your photographic camera.
  7. Click the Salvage Changes push button.

Change microphone permissions

  1. In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click and select . Click the menu button Fx57Menu and select . Click the menu button Fx89menuButton and select .

  2. Click from the left menu.
  3. Roll down to the Permissions department.
  4. Click the Settings… push button for the Microphone option.
    Firefox displays the websites with saved Allow or Block permission.
    Microphone Permission Settings - Options page
  5. Utilise the Allow/Block selector to alter 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 access your microphone checkbox if you do not want to give any other sites admission to your microphone.
  7. Click the Salvage Changes push.

Use Firefox's address bar to clear camera or microphone permissions for a site

  1. Click the padlock Fx70GreyPadlock permissions Fx87PermissionsIcon icon that displays in the address bar on the left.
    • Any relevant permission statuses for the electric current site are displayed in the Permissions section of the Site Information Site Permissions panel.
    Fx71siteinfo-MicrophoneCameraPermissionsBlocked Fx87PermissionsPanel
  2. Click the X side by side to Allowed , Immune Temporarily, Blocked or Blocked Temporarily to clear the condition then that Firefox will ask again for permission when you next visit the site.

Use Firefox'south Page Info Permissions dialog to modify camera and microphone permissions

If a page does not prompt you for permission, you lot tin use the panel in Firefox's Page Info window to prepare a custom permission for the Use the camera or Utilize the microphone setting. (Ane manner to open up the Page Info window for a website is to utilise the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + I command + I while you lot are on the page; for other means, see the Firefox Folio Info window article.) In the Folio Info window, select at the top:

Fx95PageInfoPermissions-microphone

To set a custom permission, uncheck Utilise Default for the setting and and so choose Let or Block.

Apply Your Android device's settings menu to modify camera and microphone permissions

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

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

If you've turned off camera or microphone access, you lot can turn on your microphone or photographic camera permissions by accessing the device's Settings > Privacy menu.

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