balloob1d ago

WebSerial 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 👌

Show threadPaolo Redaelli21h ago
@balloob As far as I remember @mozilla once stated that they would have not implemented it because it was a potential huge secturity threat, I just wonder what made change their mind.
Show threadMark 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.

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