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Re:Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 by varenc on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @05:03PM (#20396569)
For local development, Chrome has a flag that lets you force specific origins to be treated as secure:

  chrome://flags/#unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure
I don't think Firefox has anything equivalent though? This bug on the topic is unassigned: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1410365
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Re:Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 by aaronharnly on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @09:33AM (#20401757)
Interesting! Though I find that behaves rather strangely – seems to clear itself on every launch.
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Re:Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 by varenc on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @03:35PM (#20405625)
Yea that's annoying, but I believe that's intentional... you can pass that flag in as an arg when you launch chrome though so you don't have to set it up each time.
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Re:Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 by mort96 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:19PM (#20397757)
I don't imagine that works on mobile chrome, which is what the parent comment was talking about.
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Re:Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 by _fzslm on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @08:35PM (#20398183)
It does, on Android.
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Re:Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 by mort96 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:27PM (#20398432)
Ah, TIL.

Though it doesn't work on iOS Chrome, and you want to test on iOS too obviously.

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Re:Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:38PM (#20398487)
iOS Chrome is just Safari with a Google skin, Google has no control over this type of thing.
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Re:Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 by mort96 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:43PM (#20398513)
That's both true and completely irrelevant.
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Re:Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:50PM (#20398539)
Well, it's relevant insofar as you're complaining to the wrong company.

Does this behavior even exists in iOS Chrome? If it does, it exists in Mobile Safari as well.

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Re:Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 by mort96 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:58PM (#20398579)
I... wasn't complaining about Google though? I said you can't enable chrome://flags/#unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure (or an equivalent) on iOS, not that it's Google's fault that you can't.
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