Firefox Nightly adds Web Serial after years of saying no (www.theregister.com)

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[-] davetortoise@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

As a not particularly techy end-user. What does this mean

[-] talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

There are a lot of devices (esp32, phones, serial devices, etc ) that can have software installed (flashed) over this protocol. Before this our only choice was a chromium based browser.

[-] davetortoise@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

But can't phones already run firefox anyway?

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