Web Serial Support in Firefox
24 points by tech234a a day ago | 7 comments
  • PaulHoule a day ago |
    woohoo! let's get web bluetooth too!
  • focusedone 20 hours ago |
    Sweet!
  • accelbred 19 hours ago |
    Whelp time to figure out how to disable it or patch it out.
    • theamk 17 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 8 hours ago |
      Should be a single click just like with all the other permission based stuff.
    • gregstoll an hour ago |
      As others have said, you'll get a dialog if any site actually tries to use this. But if you want to fully turn it off, just set "dom.webserial.enabled" to false in about:config (and restart Firefox)
  • igor47 16 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