You have to use a website that is absolutely necessary for your job or government paperwork, that only works on chromium browsers (and ungoogled chromium doesn’t help)
I was just about to be like, “that’s crazy, I’ve never hsd that happen” And then I remember having to do a online test on Chrome instead of Ungoolged Chromium because the anti-cheat extension refused to work…
Renewing my car’s registration in my state won’t even work in Chrome for me. Same goes for Firefox, which I my current preferred browser. I have to use Edge. :|
Although that may be due to the extensions I had running.
I think Yucandu has (custom) hardware (like something based on an esp32 circuit board) that he wants to flash with new firmware, and you generally do that via a com-port (remnant of an old type of connector). Oversimplified: These days com-ports are simulated over usb, and (for now) only chrome-based browsers can actually send the firware over these simulated ports. An example is the flasher for Meshcore devices.
Neither did I, but they all started offering, so I started using those tools. Especially the all-in-one systems where it’s like “just buy the hardware, go to this website, and it’ll flash for you”. Like that’s more secure than “go to this website and download and run this weird exe” isn’t it?
The best part about chrome is that you don’t have to have it
Unless…
You have to use a website that is absolutely necessary for your job or government paperwork, that only works on chromium browsers (and ungoogled chromium doesn’t help)
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I was just about to be like, “that’s crazy, I’ve never hsd that happen” And then I remember having to do a online test on Chrome instead of Ungoolged Chromium because the anti-cheat extension refused to work…
Renewing my car’s registration in my state won’t even work in Chrome for me. Same goes for Firefox, which I my current preferred browser. I have to use Edge. :|
Although that may be due to the extensions I had running.
None of the browser based COM port uploader tools work on Firefox yet. Like the WLED installer or the ESP32 flash tools.
Firefox has it on beta versions or somesuch
I have no idea what any of that means
I think Yucandu has (custom) hardware (like something based on an esp32 circuit board) that he wants to flash with new firmware, and you generally do that via a com-port (remnant of an old type of connector). Oversimplified: These days com-ports are simulated over usb, and (for now) only chrome-based browsers can actually send the firware over these simulated ports. An example is the flasher for Meshcore devices.
I… Don’t even see why you would want a browser to be able to do that. Seems like really trying to increase browser security issues on purpose.
Neither did I, but they all started offering, so I started using those tools. Especially the all-in-one systems where it’s like “just buy the hardware, go to this website, and it’ll flash for you”. Like that’s more secure than “go to this website and download and run this weird exe” isn’t it?
Because it’s easy and convenient. I have esptool installed and I still usually flash via the browser.