Re: [mediacapture-main] getUserMedia "hanging" indefinitely (#846)

> > But we could move 6.3.7 up, or clone this step just after step 6.1.
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> The user might have multiple background tabs with pending gUM and this would reject all of them at the exact same time, which could be time-correlated in an exploit to track the user across origins.

I do not think this can be correlated since only one tab can have focus at a given time.
That is why I'd like to keep this step after the "wait for focus" step.

> This matches my understanding, and seems sufficient, so I suggest we close this.

As I said previously, I am ok with adding a note calling explicitly that issue to implementors

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