Friend gave me access to his Adobe account (I'm never giving Adobe money again), and it looks like they don't even support Firefox. That means I'm not using even the one remaining browser-based Adobe service that's left.

Adobe forcing you to use Chrome instead of Firefox to use their service

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[–] 86 points 2 years ago (20 children)

It's because they're using a chrome only API to interact with USB devices. This used to be a dedicated piece of software. I guess they don't even want to provide an electron app.

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  • [+] 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)
  • [–] 74 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Honestly, I kinda hate the idea of a browser being able to access hardware devices.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

    That’s why no one outside Google wants it. Apple said no. Firefox said no. There’s a reason. WebRTC is shit. It leaks too much just for a small convenience.

    And yeah, browsers don’t need my USB ports thanks.

    This move was what hurt VIA as they moved to the API exclusively. So the only native apps are just electron wrappers 🤷‍♂️

    Edit: Looks like Mozilla said yes after all heavy sigh: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebUSB_API

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    WebRTC and WebUSB are different things. RTC doesn't provide direct port access, afaik.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    I know. Both have the same fundamental premise: to leak data that shouldn’t be leaked.

    “WebUSB provides a way for these non-standardized USB device services to be exposed to the web. This means that hardware manufacturers will be able to provide a way for their device to be accessed from the web, without having to provide their own API.”

    That’s from Mozilla. And that’s a hard pass. Why anyone wants this is beyond me. Just so long as there’s a flag to turn it off.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (6 children)

    Have you worked with either before? They're completely unrelated technologies, with similar names. They have nothing to do with one another. They're not even being developed by the same groups. They emphatically do not have the same fundamental premise. I've built apps in WebRTC before, and I can guarantee it has nothing to do with WebUSB, and in fact I just confirmed in the docs that it has nothing to do with any sort of device-level hardware control.

    To reiterate: the only connection between WebUSB and WebRTC is the fact that they're named "Web" + three letter initialism.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Is this an app for recording and editing podcasts? Why do they need usb access for that? On its website it doesn't says anything about usb.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What do they need that for? Every bowser has a file picker/dragndop.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Have you tried spoofing your User Agent string?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Can you do a screen recording of the process of what it looks like to spoof a user agent string?

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Only somewhat related - I "joined" gnu/linux 10 days ago or so, actually moving my main pc to Ubuntu last week (PopOS). Anyway - being as green as I am, I did search for "beginner tips" or "things to do" when installing Ubuntu/Linux.

    I was very surprised that publication websites listed "install Chrome"... and it pretty much made me ignore those guides. Linux forums, reddit, etc were fine and what I opted to follow.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That really shouldn't be a shock

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    https://www.photopea.com/ works fine on Firefox, you maybe don't need photoshop.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    There’s hope. They do say while in beta. Maybe they’re working out issues on one before adapting to the other.

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I found out yesterday that Firefly AI also does not work with Firefox

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