However, I've found their refusal to implement or offer alternatives to WebSerial and screen-casting utterly depressing. It's made a number of tasks more difficult and inconvenient and makes Firefox a less useful tool overall.
On the WebSerial discussion ticket, an educator articulates how this decision essentially forces what was a Firefox based classroom onto Chrome. I'll be sticking with Firefox but missing functionality drives users away.
It doesn't help that their reasoning for not implementing WebSerial feels extremely paternalistic and runs counter to the ethos of user empowerment at the core of most open source projects.
What is the justification for making everyone's browser able to "read from and write to serial devices"?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Serial_...
I know it is really for user fingerprinting but what is google's overt justification for pushing it?