Google Chrome is looking to finish off the various bypasses that help uBlock Origin and other such MV2 extensions to keep functioning. Edge and Opera could soon follow too.

For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.

What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.

  • Identikit@leminal.spaceEnglish
    18·
    12 hours ago

    So many people asked “Why not Opera?” When I jumped off the AI browsers.

    This. This is why. Didn’t trust em.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      11 hours ago

      I don’t think it’s a matter of Opera being untrustworthy as much as it is the fact that they’re a Chromium-based browser, same as Edge.

        • encelado748@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          It is not a fork of Edge, it is just using the system webview, that for windows is actually the same as Edge.