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Re:Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox by rebelwebmaster on Sunday May 24, 2026 @07:52PM (#48262206)
It uses add-on gating similar to what they do for Web MIDI, so it's not exposed to users unless they specifically opt into it.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/web-serial-support-in-fire...

Re:Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox by fabrice_d on Sunday May 24, 2026 @08:06PM (#48262275)
I don't believe this is a good solution: users will obviously click on that add-on install dialog box without being better informed and protected against malicious / buggy / attacker controlled web sites.

Hopefully they will move to a better solution that offers some integrity guarantees instead, like https://rwc26.waict.dev/ that they have an early implementation of in nightly builds.