I was wondering if/when Firefox would implement the File System Access API. Mozilla's official position [0] implies: Not anytime soon, as they consider it harmful, mostly due to security considerations.
> There's a subset of this API we're quite enthusiastic about (in particular providing a read/write API for files and directories as alternative storage endpoint), but it is wrapped together with aspects for which we do not think meaningful end user consent is possible to obtain (in particular cross-site access to the end user's local file system). Overall we consider this harmful therefore, but Mozilla could be supportive of parts, provided this were segmented better.
The GitHub issue discussing this position is now closed [1].
Given their declining market shares, I guess that this decision by Firefox goes in the already quite large bucket of bad choices made by Firefox in the last years. I really tried my best to use it, going back to it every now and then, but I finally gave up. They don't offer anything that's really superior to other alternatives, privacy included.
> There's a subset of this API we're quite enthusiastic about (in particular providing a read/write API for files and directories as alternative storage endpoint), but it is wrapped together with aspects for which we do not think meaningful end user consent is possible to obtain (in particular cross-site access to the end user's local file system). Overall we consider this harmful therefore, but Mozilla could be supportive of parts, provided this were segmented better.
The GitHub issue discussing this position is now closed [1].
[0] https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#native-file-s... [1] https://wicg.github.io/file-system-access/#security-ransomwa...