Web Serial Support in Firefox

(hacks.mozilla.org)

24 points | by tech234a 19 hours ago ago

6 comments

  • igor47 14 hours ago

    Nice. I ran into this issue a few months ago:

    https://igor.moomers.org/posts/wled-christmas-lights#flashin...

    Nice to hear it works now without the very hacky work around

  • PaulHoule 19 hours ago

    woohoo! let's get web bluetooth too!

  • focusedone 17 hours ago

    Sweet!

  • accelbred 17 hours ago

    Whelp time to figure out how to disable it or patch it out.

    • theamk 15 hours ago

      why? Web Serial is one of the better web-based integrations out there. There is no functionality available without an explicit authorization, all that website can do is to pop up a dialog. And you approve individual port on per-site basis, so it's not like it can grab a random port without your knowledge.

      This is my favorite model for web: anything more complex should be gated behind user permission. A site which requires that functionality will get that permission with no problem, and a random clickbait fingerprinter will get nothing.

    • askl 5 hours ago

      Should be a single click just like with all the other permission based stuff.