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I have a suggestion for Mozilla: find use cases that benefit your users and are not possible in other browsers. For example: Browsers are terrible at accessin
by amluto 2y ago
I have a suggestion for Mozilla: find use cases that benefit your users and are not possible in other browsers. For example:
Browsers are terrible at accessing devices on a local network. Make this work well in Firefox, extending protocols as needed.
Browsers are terrible at configuring IoT devices. It device makers are terrible at making apps for this purpose that don’t suck. Make Firefox (on desktop and mobile!) be the premier way to usable and securely configure IoT devices. Get device vendors to sign on: someone could (and probably would) sell a gadget where the instructions suggest installing Firefox to set up the device.
Leverage the same technology to go after enterprise users. Ever seen a piece of high-end, expensive networking gear with a web UI? Ever contemplated how pathetically insecure this is? Ever contemplated how unpleasant it to provision certificates to make it secure? Make this work, easily and securely, on Firefox, using new protocols as needed. Make everyone else play catch-up.
Heck, start small. Allow setting domain constraints on imported root certificates.
The moral: do something new and better.
- palata 2y agoPlease, no.
- finack 2y agoNone of these things are in scope for a program that is supposed to browse the web (by fetching web pages and rendering them).
- stqism 2y agoIt sounds dumb, but honestly modern browsers feel way closer to the JRE than they did things designed to fetch and render sites.
- amluto 2y agoHow is securely connecting to a device that isn’t, itself, connected to the cloud, fetching a webpage from it, and rendering it out of scope for a web browser? Certainly URLs like http://192.168.1.1 http://192.168.1.1 have been in scope for decades — why can’t a web browser figure out how to support that use case well?
- finack 2y agoWeb browsers can already do that. I'm not sure what else is desired beyond what they already do.