Comment by bawolff
Chrome is already in the process of killing it https://developer.chrome.com/blog/local-network-access
Chrome is already in the process of killing it https://developer.chrome.com/blog/local-network-access
This how many of them work for transporting vs traditional old way of registering url scheme and requiring user interacts --- Discord, Blizzard net, Riot Client ... all localhost listener's that can interact
The company I work for has a legitimate service that runs on the loopback (it provides our web apps APIs for some device integration) hopefully its just as simple as the user accepting the prompt else we'll be drowning in support. We had to go the path of the local service because they killed NPAPI. I've been thinking about using web serial as an alternative but Firefox doesn't support it.
That being said, I think this is an overall win, hopefully Firefox implements it in a consistent manner as well.