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Web Serial Support in Firefox

• PaulHoule 5mo ago
  woohoo! let's get web bluetooth too!
• focusedone 5mo ago
  Sweet!
• accelbred 5mo ago
  Whelp time to figure out how to disable it or patch it out.
  • theamk 5mo 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 5mo ago
    Should be a single click just like with all the other permission based stuff.
  • gregstoll 5mo 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 5mo ago
  Nice. I ran into this issue a few months ago: https://igor.moomers.org/posts/wled-christmas-lights#flashing https://igor.moomers.org/posts/wled-christmas-lights#flashin... Nice to hear it works now without the very hacky work around