It's about time. I hate having to use another browser so I can use a few web apps that need to connect to serial devices.

This has been a serious pain point for people who have wanted to use web apps to flash many things, including keyboards and phones. Nice to see Mozilla is finally observing the competition on something that's not AI.

I think this means that meshtastic and meshcore flashers will be usable in Firefox now.

Great news for ESPhome - it is such a hassle to try and use the cli (especially on windows) as opposed to just using the interface in home assistant

Huh maybe they'll finally add WebUSB

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

This is a bit of speculation on my part, but I think the recent leadership changes, especially Eric Rescorla (ekr) leaving as Mozilla CTO probably lead to this. I think ekr was responsible for many of the security vetoes that held APIs like this back. Maybe they had good reason for it at the time, but Chrome has now demonstrated that Web Serial has been safe for years.

So although I appreciate Firefox has always been security conscious, I think they sometimes landed a little too strict on some decisions. I'd be happy if this attitude change allows some more innovation in Firefox that is not just "AI all the things".

I do not want this.