balloobWebSerial has landed in Firefox Nightly !! 🎉
Enable it in about:config and it all just works as expected. Took a brand new ESP32 and had a new Bluetooth proxy added to Home Assistant within 2 minutes 👌
Rachel
kinghat
Thibaultmol 🌈
christiannils@balloob great news!
TinheadNed
Gina Häußge@balloob Oh God finally! Webserial was pretty much the only reason for me to still be opening up Ungoogled Chromium.
Mäh W.
ralf tauscher 
Felix DO3FDS
Brett Edmond Carlock@balloob
Finally, all my sUAS stuff can be flashed and byebye Chromium.
Finally, all my sUAS stuff can be flashed and byebye Chromium.
Cassidy James 
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Tofu 
King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi@balloob OH SWEET!!!
Does this mean that web apps like VIA (I had to use that to configure my Keychron keyboard) might soon also work in Firefox instead of only in Chrome? 😄
mxk@dragonarchitect @balloob don't those speak webusb instead of webserial?
Paolo Redaelli
Olivier Mehani@paoloredaelli It's “neutral” now https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webserial, and a discussion here https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/687 @balloob @mozilla
Mark Stosberg@paoloredaelli @balloob @mozilla It seems like somewhere during the ongoing Chromebook era there was a mentality shift that a web browser should be able to do practically everything an OS could. At this point, what's left in terms of what a web browser /can't/ do?
The framing has helped Linux because apps now seem as likely to be created for the web as they are for the dominant desktop OS.
Kay Ohtie 🔜 FWA@paoloredaelli @balloob @mozilla I would imagine popularity as well as them just figuring out a security model for implementing it. Maybe, like Chrome, it's not persistent between page loads and must be reauthorized every visit per-device.
LouD
tobozowebserial in FF is a good thing but it's too late to be excited about it as someone else already won that medal in 2023 with a polyfill
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webserial-for-firefox/
Troed SångbergRE: https://fosstodon.org/@balloob/116398481380578311
The only reason I have Chromium installed is for webserial. I haven't had the need to use anything but Firefox for years otherwise.
Awesome.
F4GRX Sébastien@balloob cant wait for websystemd and then, finally, webweb.
@f4grx @balloob it was foretold: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript
(from the originator of this talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat )
Dr. Quadragon ❌@balloob Finally!
Dorian
DJGummikuh@balloob NOICE! one of the few reasons for me to keep a Chromium nearby finally eliminated!
elsa sloth-ringen 🔜GPN@balloob is webserial same as webUSB ?
fliegerjohn@balloob nice! No need for chrome anymore! :o)
Tane Piper ⁂@balloob I tried https://web-serial-app.netlify.app/ with it - it works now, but the popup for the devices doesn't show except for a short moment, accepting 'test-device-1' - with block or allow. Any ideas? Would be nice to get it working, happy to update it
Greg Stoll 🌈@tanepiper @balloob Hello! Can you confirm that the “dom.webserial.testing.enabled”preference (in about:config) is set to false?
primalmotion@balloob boy. finally. I can trash chrome definitely.
zoe 
Richie Rich@balloob 😳 wow!