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Its lack of MIDI support is still holding me back. They've been talking about it for years. Till then I'm on Chromium, sorry. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show

Its lack of MIDI support is still holding me back. They've been talking about it for years. Till then I'm on Chromium, sorry. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836897 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836897

sp332 7y ago
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- robbrown451 7y ago
  You can toggle it on but it doesn't actually work.
tartoran 7y ago
You can use chromium for MIDI support and FF for everything else.
- latexr 7y ago
  Most people don’t want to keep changing web browsers for every task. In particular if you do a lot of work (be it paid or a hobby) in a technology your web browser lacks, it’s less frustrating to use for everything the one that has the feature.
lioeters 7y ago
Fascinating (and disappointing..) comment thread about implementing the WebMIDI API in Firefox. The issue was reported (7 years ago) by Chris Wilson, who's been at Google working on WebAudio stuff for years and has published lots of related articles and repos. I'm a big fan. https://github.com/cwilso https://github.com/cwilso There's even a comment from someone at Ableton, expressing interest and support ("testing with preliminary builds as well as providing hardware for implementers to test with"). That was 2 years ago, and no one from Firefox engaged them?! Sounds like a huge missed opportunity. Sadly, the last comment a year ago was from a person no longer at Mozilla, saying the issue is stalled and that it's "very low priority work". --- Edit: Aah, now I'm imagining what might have been, a collaboration between Firefox and Ableton, would have been so cool..
FrankBooth 7y ago
"The major blocker right now is security issues related to device firmware hijacking." - https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/58 https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/58

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Its lack of MIDI support is still holding me back. They've been talking about it for years. Till then I'm on Chromium, sorry. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show

by robbrown451 7y ago

sp332 7y ago
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- robbrown451 7y ago
  You can toggle it on but it doesn't actually work.
tartoran 7y ago
You can use chromium for MIDI support and FF for everything else.
- latexr 7y ago
  Most people don’t want to keep changing web browsers for every task. In particular if you do a lot of work (be it paid or a hobby) in a technology your web browser lacks, it’s less frustrating to use for everything the one that has the feature.
lioeters 7y ago
Fascinating (and disappointing..) comment thread about implementing the WebMIDI API in Firefox. The issue was reported (7 years ago) by Chris Wilson, who's been at Google working on WebAudio stuff for years and has published lots of related articles and repos. I'm a big fan. https://github.com/cwilso https://github.com/cwilso There's even a comment from someone at Ableton, expressing interest and support ("testing with preliminary builds as well as providing hardware for implementers to test with"). That was 2 years ago, and no one from Firefox engaged them?! Sounds like a huge missed opportunity. Sadly, the last comment a year ago was from a person no longer at Mozilla, saying the issue is stalled and that it's "very low priority work". --- Edit: Aah, now I'm imagining what might have been, a collaboration between Firefox and Ableton, would have been so cool..
FrankBooth 7y ago
"The major blocker right now is security issues related to device firmware hijacking." - https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/58 https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/58