This is related to Firefox unwilling to add support for WebUSB because, I suppose, they believe that a browser is not a general purpose application launcher and the scope of what it can do should be limited. As such, it should not be allowed to e.g. control peripherals like the USB devices.

Which is in my opinion a fairly reasonable take.

But given the current situation, I would assume that the companies providing WebUSB tools like installers would also spend a few moments to create e.g. a Python script that would do the same thing but locally. So that anyone unwilling to use WebUSB within their browser can have a vetted and transparent way to get the same thing done.

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OJFord 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Firefox unwilling to add support for WebUSB because, I suppose, they believe that a browser is not a general purpose application launcher

No, it's security concern.

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/100

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p0w3n3d 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

WebUSB Indeed sounds like madness

	▲	treyd 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I am opposed to it for similar reasons as in GP, but it does let you do cool things like installing Android ROMs without touching adb by having a (presumably) WASM-based impl of adb.