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Feels a bit out of place that the website tries to aggressively make me download Firefox, with multiple links on the site for it. Like it's the 2000's again and

by maxlin 5mo ago

Feels a bit out of place that the website tries to aggressively make me download Firefox, with multiple links on the site for it. Like it's the 2000's again and I'd need ActiveX or something. But it's to use a standard. Sure, the standard is cool, have used it to flash Meshtastic to some LoRa boards, before advancing to use VS Code + ESP-IDF to flash in my own LoRa code.

nathanmills 5mo ago
What makes it aggressive?
- nathanmills 5mo ago
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  - eipi10_hn 5mo ago
    I dislike everything you said.
  - csande17 5mo ago
    > [...] the website tries to aggressively make me download Firefox, with multiple links on the site for it. > What makes it aggressive? The parent comment already contained the answer to your question (the multiple links are what makes it aggressive, in GP's opinion). Your comment might have been seen as more constructive if it engaged with that directly.
    - nathanmills 5mo ago
      I don't remember that being there, maybe it was edited. But 2 buttons are not "aggressive". C'mon. Really dude? You believe that shit?
      - maxlin 5mo ago
        Wasn't edited. 2 large download buttons on a page that barely scrolls is as aggressive as it gets. What, you'd only consider 5 buttons aggressive?
        nathanmills 5mo ago
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        maxlin 5mo ago
        You sound like someone really coping and trying to make it not aggressive. One button would not be, albeit maybe a bit out of place as it's still a standard. Two buttons, is simply aggressive. More aggressive than you screaming full caps even .
        nathanmills 5mo ago
        You must be a child.
iolo 5mo ago
> Feels a bit out of place that the website tries to aggressively make me download Firefox It's firefox.com, feels like the perfect place to encourage people to download Firefox. That would be like going to a car dealership and being put off by people trying to sell you a car
kotaKat 5mo ago
it feels more out of place that it's a specific company getting to shove their name up as priority billing for the feature when this entire page should be focusing more on WebSerial support being in Firefox as a whole and not one dude's little devboard company.
- mch82 5mo ago
  Think of it as a collab between two leading open source organizations. Adafruit has contributed a significant amount of open source software and hardware that improves developer experience on microcontrollers, embedded Linux, and Circuit Python.
- ptorrone 5mo ago
  "one dude's little devboard company" ... that "one dude" is limor fried, who's been shipping open hardware since 2005, and before that from her MIT dorm room... webserial in firefox happened because a bunch of people and companies, adafruit included, shipped code, fixed bugs, made open hardware, and did the standards grind. clicking the name/link of the comment (kotaKat) ... defending right-to-repair, foss, anti-drm, anti-walled-garden. someone ships open source hardware and software that work together... and you shit on it. join in and tinker, share code and projects ... or stay addicted to being miserable. if you cannot see this as a positive, nothing will ever be.
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by maxlin 5mo ago

nathanmills 5mo ago

What makes it aggressive?

nathanmills 5mo ago
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- eipi10_hn 5mo ago
  I dislike everything you said.
- csande17 5mo ago
  > [...] the website tries to aggressively make me download Firefox, with multiple links on the site for it. > What makes it aggressive? The parent comment already contained the answer to your question (the multiple links are what makes it aggressive, in GP's opinion). Your comment might have been seen as more constructive if it engaged with that directly.
  - nathanmills 5mo ago
    I don't remember that being there, maybe it was edited. But 2 buttons are not "aggressive". C'mon. Really dude? You believe that shit?
    - maxlin 5mo ago
      Wasn't edited. 2 large download buttons on a page that barely scrolls is as aggressive as it gets. What, you'd only consider 5 buttons aggressive?
      - nathanmills 5mo ago
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        maxlin 5mo ago
        You sound like someone really coping and trying to make it not aggressive. One button would not be, albeit maybe a bit out of place as it's still a standard. Two buttons, is simply aggressive. More aggressive than you screaming full caps even .
        nathanmills 5mo ago
        You must be a child.

iolo 5mo ago

> Feels a bit out of place that the website tries to aggressively make me download Firefox It's firefox.com, feels like the perfect place to encourage people to download Firefox. That would be like going to a car dealership and being put off by people trying to sell you a car

kotaKat 5mo ago

it feels more out of place that it's a specific company getting to shove their name up as priority billing for the feature when this entire page should be focusing more on WebSerial support being in Firefox as a whole and not one dude's little devboard company.

mch82 5mo ago
Think of it as a collab between two leading open source organizations. Adafruit has contributed a significant amount of open source software and hardware that improves developer experience on microcontrollers, embedded Linux, and Circuit Python.
ptorrone 5mo ago
"one dude's little devboard company" ... that "one dude" is limor fried, who's been shipping open hardware since 2005, and before that from her MIT dorm room... webserial in firefox happened because a bunch of people and companies, adafruit included, shipped code, fixed bugs, made open hardware, and did the standards grind. clicking the name/link of the comment (kotaKat) ... defending right-to-repair, foss, anti-drm, anti-walled-garden. someone ships open source hardware and software that work together... and you shit on it. join in and tinker, share code and projects ... or stay addicted to being miserable. if you cannot see this as a positive, nothing will ever be.
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