diff --git a/mobile/shared/components/geckoview/ColorPickerDelegate.sys.mjs b/mobile/shared/components/geckoview/ColorPickerDelegate.sys.mjs
index 81ebea0732a5..1a1c7c9e9a89 100644
--- a/mobile/shared/components/geckoview/ColorPickerDelegate.sys.mjs
+++ b/mobile/shared/components/geckoview/ColorPickerDelegate.sys.mjs
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ const { debug, warn } = GeckoViewUtils.initLogging("ColorPickerDelegate");
 export class ColorPickerDelegate {
   // TODO(bug 1805397): Implement default colors
   init(aBrowsingContext, aTitle, aInitialColor, aDefaultColors) {
+    this._browsingContext = aBrowsingContext;
     this._prompt = new lazy.GeckoViewPrompter(aBrowsingContext);
     this._msg = {
       type: "color",
@@ -25,6 +26,13 @@ export class ColorPickerDelegate {
   }
 
   open(aColorPickerShownCallback) {
+    if (!this._browsingContext.canOpenModalPicker) {
+      // Color pickers are not allowed to open, so we respond to the callback
+      // with returnCancel.
+      aColorPickerShownCallback.done("");
+      return;
+    }
+
     this._prompt.asyncShowPrompt(this._msg, result => {
       // OK: result
       // Cancel: !result
diff --git a/widget/nsBaseColorPicker.cpp b/widget/nsBaseColorPicker.cpp
index bb9d49e3d478..e6f10c8dfa6c 100644
--- a/widget/nsBaseColorPicker.cpp
+++ b/widget/nsBaseColorPicker.cpp
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include "nsBaseColorPicker.h"
 
 #include "mozilla/dom/BrowsingContext.h"
+#include "mozilla/dom/CanonicalBrowsingContext.h"
 
 NS_IMETHODIMP
 nsBaseColorPicker::Init(mozilla::dom::BrowsingContext* aBrowsingContext,
@@ -25,6 +26,10 @@ NS_IMETHODIMP
 nsBaseColorPicker::Open(nsIColorPickerShownCallback* aCallback) {
   MOZ_ASSERT(aCallback);
 
+  if (MaybeBlockColorPicker(aCallback)) {
+    return NS_OK;
+  }
+
   if (mCallback) {
     // It means Open has already been called: this is not allowed
     NS_WARNING("mCallback is already set. Open called twice?");
@@ -34,3 +39,19 @@ nsBaseColorPicker::Open(nsIColorPickerShownCallback* aCallback) {
 
   return OpenNative();
 }
+
+bool nsBaseColorPicker::MaybeBlockColorPicker(
+    nsIColorPickerShownCallback* aCallback) {
+  MOZ_ASSERT(mBrowsingContext);
+
+  if (!mBrowsingContext->Canonical()->CanOpenModalPicker()) {
+    if (aCallback) {
+      // Color pickers are disabled, so we answer the callback with
+      // returnCancel.
+      aCallback->Done(EmptyString());
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  return false;
+}
diff --git a/widget/nsBaseColorPicker.h b/widget/nsBaseColorPicker.h
index bdc2e2993787..3c02ba9006f7 100644
--- a/widget/nsBaseColorPicker.h
+++ b/widget/nsBaseColorPicker.h
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ class nsBaseColorPicker : public nsIColorPicker {
   virtual nsresult InitNative(const nsTArray<nsString>& aDefaultColors) = 0;
   virtual nsresult OpenNative() = 0;
 
+  bool MaybeBlockColorPicker(nsIColorPickerShownCallback* aCallback);
+
   RefPtr<mozilla::dom::BrowsingContext> mBrowsingContext;
   nsString mTitle;
   nsString mInitialColor;