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"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

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552 points freedomben | 3 comments | 11 Oct 24 14:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.528s | source
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freedomben ◴[11 Oct 24 14:42 UTC] No.41809900[source]▶
Notably, Firefox is not removing v2 support (at least for now as of March 2024)

> Firefox, however, has no plans to deprecate MV2 and will continue to support MV2 extensions for the foreseeable future. And even if we re-evaluate this decision at some point down the road, we anticipate providing a notice of at least 12 months for developers to adjust accordingly and not feel rushed.[1]

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/03/13/manifest-v3-manif...

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EasyMark ◴[11 Oct 24 15:53 UTC] No.41810602[source]▶
To my knowledge the “big” chrome engine alternatives aren’t either. I know that Vivaldi and Brave plan on keeping around v2 as long as it is economically feasible
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1. echoangle ◴[11 Oct 24 18:32 UTC] No.41812032[source]▶
This sounds like Android phone manufacturers making fun of apple for removing the headphone jack and then doing it themselves a year later. Are they seriously going to maintain V2 support for a relatively small percentage of Powerusers which probably are mostly already using Firefox anyways? The point of being economically infeasible is probably in a month or so.
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2. therein ◴[11 Oct 24 19:05 UTC] No.41812450[source]▶
I think it comes down to how aggressive Chrome will be at changing the internal APIs that it uses. They could choose to make it a very expensive patch to maintain. But I think they would have to go out of their way to do that.
3. mgiampapa ◴[11 Oct 24 22:20 UTC] No.41814415[source]▶
Firefox (and uBlock and BPC etc) works great on Andriod, but you have to disable Chrome to get Google apps to play nice.