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Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] peg 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Won't Edge and all Chromium-based browsers end up with Manifest v3 and no v2? Will extension devs continue to support v2 in Firefox?

[–] AProfessional 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Brave claims they will maintain it in their fork but that won’t last long.

Developers don’t need to keep mv2 support, Firefox supports mv3 plus extra APIs on top.

[–] donio 2 points 11 months ago

And keeping the v2 (or v3+WebRequest) support in the browser is not enough, they'd also have to start running their own extension store since presumably the Chrome one will no longer carry such extensions.