alt Hacker NewsAnd Web Serial reached mainline Firefox last week.
I hope Mozilla can eventually stop playing their silly role in the security theater of “but what if our users are dumb” and actually deliver those "power-user" features that would allow me to uninstall Chrome for good. Oh, and also, --app= flag please.
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>And Web Serial reached mainline Firefox last week.
That's good news. I wish FF wasn't so conservative... they're missing a lot of cool APIs. Sometimes I wonder who they think their audience is. I suppose they would know better than I would.
> their silly role in the security theater of “but what if our users are dumb”
It's not security theater. If you go to Chromium settings -> Site settings -> permissions, and expand "additional permissions", you will see a total of 26 different permissions, each gated by the same generic "you want to use this" popup.
Permission popup fatigue is quite real, and not a security theater. And that's on top of the usual questions of implementation complexity etc.
The issue with Web Serial is it's not available for Android. Because for some dumb reason, android apps can't access /dev/ttyUSBx, even if kernel exposes them. But then can access raw USB devices. That's really weird. But if you need to access USB serial device in an android, you need to implement FTDI proprietary protocol or whatever adapter you're using by hand.