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Chrome extension Manifest V3 migration tracker

by hao1300 on 5/24/22, 5:22 PM with 6 comments

  • by blip54321 on 5/24/22, 7:48 PM

    V3 is, unfortunately, nowhere near usable.

    It'd be as if Microsoft had discontinued the Windows 95 user interface in favor of Microsoft Bob, in 1995. It's that not-done.

    I'd be opposed to the transition if it were done, but V3 is nowhere near workable. Documentation, APIs, the whole shebang. It's just unfinished.

  • by tconfrey on 5/24/22, 5:56 PM

    This is a crazy situation. Unless something changes many millions of Chrome users are going to find that the extensions they depend on just stop working next January.

    As noted here many very popular extensions have not been updated in years. The transition from a long lived background process to stateless service workers is non trivial in many cases, or impossible in others due to bugs.

    The silver lining is that as an extension developer (eg me -> https://braintool.org) if you have a V3 extension you might be in a position to pick up a lot of new users during the transition!

  • by egfx on 5/24/22, 5:59 PM

    Absolutely not ready for prime time. I couldn’t agree more. Examples like these are a misnomer for extensions with more then a couple dozen lines of code, https://youtube.com/watch?v=-aY4d5JBVnc

    This is more what it’s like to develop in manifest 3, https://github.com/kentbrew/learning-manifest-v3/blob/master...

  • by BuckRogers on 6/6/22, 6:27 AM

    Unmaintained extensions aren't really a loss. It would just be a bit more time until a user found out the maintainer was MIA. This forces the issue. Anyone that cares at all will have their extension updated by the deadline.

    I'm not convinced MV3 is the disaster everyone is saying it will be. Gorhill said he's looking into all the uBlock Origin features that he can fit into MV3, and the most recent updates sounded pretty positive. uBO is very likely to live on in MV3. If not, ABP is very positive on MV3, and AdGuard has been the only newer entrant that has impressed me. They'll likely figure out MV3 as well, the only reason to keep one eye on them due to their Russian origins. Who knows what ties may exist with the Kremlin.

  • by intsunny on 5/24/22, 6:41 PM

    RIP Chrome ad blockers. Google finally got their revenge.

    More megabytes of tracker JS for all Chrome users!

  • by lapcat on 5/24/22, 6:31 PM

    Slightly strange chart, it seems to be using 8 day intervals rather than weekly. So the entire period covered is the last 232 days, or approximately 8 months.

    Anyway, the chart is scary. I personally have not yet migrated my Chrome extensions from v2 to v3.