WebSerial has landed in Firefox Nightly !!

[balloob@fosstodon.org]

WebSerial has landed in Firefox Nightly !!

Enable it in about:config and it all just works as expected. Took a brand new ESP32 and had a new Bluetooth proxy added to Home Assistant within 2 minutes

[rachel@transitory.social]

@balloob@fosstodon.org yesssssss finally

[kinghat@mstdn.io]

@balloob serial?!

[christiannils@mastodon.social]

@balloob great news!

[tinheadned@dice.camp]

@balloob oooo! a feature in #ff I actually want

[foosel@chaos.social]

@balloob Oh God finally! Webserial was pretty much the only reason for me to still be opening up Ungoogled Chromium.

[maehw@chaos.social]

@balloob no waaaaaay!

[stereo@freiburg.social]

@balloob finally

flashing #meshcore using firefox.

cc @blackforestmesh

[brett_e_carlock@mastodon.online]

@balloob
Finally, all my sUAS stuff can be flashed and byebye Chromium.

[cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family]

@balloob soon @micahilbery

[vxo@digipres.club]

@balloob
Yesssssss no more having to switch browsers for WebSerial

[tofu@is-a.cat]

@balloob wait, I've done similar stuff with webusb to flash an esp-32 before, but it was stritcly that to upload built fimrware

[dragonarchitect@rubber.social]

@balloob OH SWEET!!!

Does this mean that web apps like VIA (I had to use that to configure my Keychron keyboard) might soon also work in Firefox instead of only in Chrome?

[fds2610@mastodon.online]

@stereo @balloob @blackforestmesh endlich !!!

[thibaultmol@en.osm.town]

@Kinghat @balloob yeah, which is exactly what you need if you want to flash various devices like esp's.
Currently was only in chrome

[paoloredaelli@mastodon.uno]

@balloob As far as I remember @mozilla once stated that they would have not implemented it because it was a potential huge secturity threat, I just wonder what made change their mind.

[loudfpv@mastodon.social]

@balloob
Took them long enough
@tobozo

[troed@swecyb.com]

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@balloob/116398481380578311

The only reason I have Chromium installed is for webserial. I haven't had the need to use anything but Firefox for years otherwise.

Awesome.

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@balloob cant wait for websystemd and then, finally, webweb.

[tobozo@mastodon.social]

@loudfpv @balloob

webserial in FF is a good thing but it's too late to be excited about it as someone else already won that medal in 2023 with a polyfill

WebSerial for Firefox – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download WebSerial for Firefox for Firefox. WebSerial API Polyfill for Mozilla Firefox browser

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