I think it's meant to tell you the app has access to your microphone, which could be useful to know from a privacy perspective.
If it's anywhere, it might be in privacy related settings.
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This right here, OP. On my phone it's
Settings -> Security & privacy -> Privacy Controls -> Permission manager
I bet if you remove FF's mic permission and then open it you won't see the icon anymore. My phone will put a little green dot in the upper right for an app that has permission to access location.
That's kind of what I figured. Though Firefox shows as microphone is not allowed. But it def shows the icon.
There are two kinds of permissions at play: the Android's microphone permission for Firefox, and Firefox's microphone permission for sites.
Firefox needs permission from Android in order to access the microphone. Then, sites need permission from Firefox to access the microphone. You can set Firefox to block access, allow access or ask for access. The latter is the default option, so every time a site tries to access navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia() or navigator.getUserMedia(), Firefox will show a popup asking whether to allow or block such access.
Hmmm, no pop up, but I hear what you're saying... What should i do?
- Open Firefox app
- Open the 3-dot menu (⋮) and choose Settings.
- Scroll and find and choose "Site settings"
- Choose "Microphone".
If you see the following screen, then Android is blocking Firefox access to microphone.
However, if you see only the two options "Ask to allow" and "Block", without any following complain from Firefox regarding Android, then Firefox already has microphone access from Android, and it's (Firefox) ready to ask or block whenever a site tries to access microphone.
OK, so it was blocked, I set it to ask every time, but it didn't change the stupid icon.
I grabbed a ![screenshot]https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8f390d6d-0cbe-4fa5-8dc8-5ee50b066007.jpeg)
Well.... hm. Now I can't manage to make my FF show the Mic privacy icon no matter how I set the permissions.
Mine are always shown inside the green background before it fades to the little dot though, if yours does that stock behavior with the permission icons and this is a different icon then I really don't know.