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by dstaley 1612 days ago
This is also available in Microsoft Edge. Still, would be awesome to see support in Firefox and Safari!
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> Still, would be awesome to see support in Firefox and Safari!

Both Safari and Firefox consider WebUSB harmful, and will not implement. Their reasons have been voiced loud and clear to the Chrome team (as they were voiced regarding many other standards).

Chrome, however, is the dominant browser and engine, so they dont' care. At all. It's now a "standard", and you will never other browser implementers' positions on web.dev (which is now a full-on unashamed Chrome propaganda vehicle).

To be fair, Edge is also Chromium-based (I guess that's what the previous author meant, rather than specifically Chrome-only).

But yeah, I'm also hoping for WebUSB to make its way to other browsers, but for now I'll take any improvement to building & distributing apps across many operating systems at once :)