Firefox or Chrome would have control over that hardware related code not the third party software, the software would ask if you have a microphone or not and a popup would/should appear so you can confirm, an evil developer can't go around this.
I know. I’m concerned the application will get changed in between uses. If it’s complex enough that I couldn’t use just screen or a short script I write myself then that means I’m depending on the behavior of a webpage to remain consistent for some process.
I don’t care about security I care about the application written by the device manufacturer (who I trust from a security standpoint) not changing (which it will, because some business/marketing/“UX” guy always comes along and breaks things and I won’t have a way to get the old version of the application that I needed to drive the hardware)
I mean the idea that webpages will want hardware access is concerning and I’m sure a lot of them will ask for it for some reason and that is a security problem but it’s not at all what I’ve been talking about. Maybe try rereading my other replies?
Sorry if I did not understand your example, are you afraid of companies offering a webpage for configuring your printer/drone/device instead of a stand alone application, Then if the site goes down you can't configure your thing?
If this is the case then you are asking to not allow features for the good developers because bad/lazy developers exists.
I have a Canon printer that works fine on Linux but I do not have the GUI executable like on Windows, so one day it did not work anymore, I had no idea what to do so i installed the driver on a Windows VM , let the VM to access the printer and I got a diagnostic (I forgot to open a tray thing). So for this case if the printer devs could make this diagnostic tool as a webpage or Electron app would have helped me a lot (I was lucky I already had a Windows VM)
