Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Android: Camera Can Remain Active When Phone is Locked

Mozilla says it will fix the bug later this year, in October.

Mozilla says it's working on fixing a bug in Firefox for Android that keeps the smartphone camera active even after users have moved the browser in the background or the phone screen was locked.

The bug was first spotted and reported to Mozilla a year ago, in July 2019, by an employee of video delivery platform Appear TV.

The bug manifests when users chose to video stream from a website loaded in Firefox instead of a native app. more