Chrome enumerateDevices returns all devices

[Martin Nyström]

Is this intended behaviour that the Navigator enumerateDevices returns all devices? It appears to completely ignore the permission selection.

The behaviour in Firefox is that it only returns the devices that has been allowed in this dialogue box, and if you attempt to set a new device this popup will resurface requiring user interaction.

/M

[Philipp Hancke]

It is, enumerateDevices allows you to build your own selection dialog.

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[Martin Nyström]

Thanks Philipp,

At least then we know it is intended. However, I am lost of the purpose of the device selection in the permissions popup. Because if I select Arctis 7+ as my input device in the permission pop-up, I can still use my built in MacOS microphone without having giving it permissions.  We just trying to figure out how to navigate in this topic.

/M

On Friday, 10 October 2025 at 13:58:54 UTC+2 Philipp Hancke wrote:

It is, enumerateDevices allows you to build your own selection dialog.

Am Fr., 10. Okt. 2025 um 13:57 Uhr schrieb

Is this intended behaviour that the Navigator enumerateDevices returns all devices? It appears to completely ignore the permission selection.

The behaviour in Firefox is that it only returns the devices that has been allowed in this dialogue box, and if you attempt to set a new device this popup will resurface requiring user interaction.

/M

[Philipp Hancke]

Historical reasons -- the in-browser device selection is fairly new and only launched recently - with a lot of confusion since this did not let you select the device with an "ideal" deviceId constraint.

enumerateDevices has been the application choice for a decade roughly,

  https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/devices/input-output/

is still a fairly good sample how to use it (but lacks things like the devicechange event)

Browsers have always been opinionated in that area so behavior differs.

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