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The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

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[-] princessnorah 5 points 11 months ago

Firefox is my daily, but the fact I have to fire up a chromium browser to use web serial or midi is an endless annoyance. Mozilla won’t add that functionality as they see it as a security risk.

[-] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago

? I'm quite positive I've used MIDI in Firefox on hooktheory.

[-] Scrath@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Honestly, in my opinion it kind of is (though I'm not an expert on it). Except for convenience I don't think a browser should be allowed to access my USB devices. Though I would welcome it if it was enabled with the same kind of request that pops up when a browser wants to access the microphone or camera.

[-] princessnorah 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That is, quite literally, how it works in Chromium. Mozilla still sees it as a security risk, even with user permissions. Honestly, having to boot Chromium is a bigger security risk.

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