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

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[–] brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

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".