Hello everyone.
Our bug tacking system has been showing the following error (1,1M occurances) only happening on FireFox version 9.1.0 desktop:
Navigator.getGamepads: Document’s Permission Policy does not allow calling getGamepads() from this context.
The issue started to appear on the 13th of July 2021
Some information about our front-end architecture is:
- The error started to occur on the 13th of July,
- Our app is running within FaceBook,
- We a download our playcanvas scene which is then deployed,
- We have our own framework which embeds the pc engine which in turn loads the scene, passed to an application layer which renders it,
- This approach has been working for us for the last 4-5 years
- No changes were made to any of our playcanvas code before the error started to occur.
Upon investigating, I found that the only place in our source where this is called, is in the playcanvas engine:
Object.assign(pc, function() {
var GamePads = function() {
this.gamepadsSupported = !!navigator.getGamepads || !!navigator.webkitGetGamepads;
this.current = [];
this.previous = [];
this.deadZone = 0.25;
};
which seems to be initialised upon start. My best guess is that a policy has been changed in FireFox, and hoping someone might have some more insight on this.
The issue is as far as I am aware not blocking the user.
Cheers,
Dave
