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dftf
Collaborator
Status: New idea

Some malicious websites force Firefox into full-screen mode the moment their page loads, for example:

Firefox_DontAllowAutoFullScreen.png

Less-technical users may miss the brief "Press ESC to exit full-screen mode" message, and then be stuck: not knowing either ESC or F11 can exit this mode.

Surprisingly, under about:preferences#permissionsData , there is no setting there to stop sites from being able to force Firefox into full-screen mode, either!

I think a new "Full screen" permission category should be added to that area of the settings, and by-default it should be set to "Default for all websites: [ Ask me to enter full-screen 🔻 ]", with additional choices of "Always allow" (the current behaviour; any site can make Firefox full-screen) or "Never allow" (where users would have to click the permissions icon in the left of the URL bar, and enable it there for a site; similar to how it works when requests to send notifications are set to "block new requests").

The current behaviour is silly: any site can force Firefox into full-screen, leaving some users then stuck.

1 Comment
luis123456789
Making moves

Shoudn't this fall under the general permission to not allow sites to change window sizes? But if it doesnt't, yeah then this permission needs to be added as a per-Site Preference.