
Google Chrome to phase out Manifest V2 extensions starting June 3, complete by early 2025
Google Chrome is initiating the phase-out of Manifest V2 extensions starting June 3, 2024. By early next year, these extensions will cease to function entirely. Manifest V3, introduced in 2019, aims to enhance the security, privacy, and performance of Chrome extensions, although the move initially raised criticism primarily due to its impact on ad blockers. However, Google has since added features to address these concerns, like user script support and increased ruleset limits for declarativeNetRequest, accommodating up to 330,000 static and 30,000 dynamic rules.
Updates for ad blockers in the Chrome Web Store now benefit from faster review times, with over 85% of actively maintained extensions already using Manifest V3. Popular content filtering tools such as AdBlock, Adblock Plus, AdGuard, and uBlock Origin have already transitioned to Manifest V3 (though some users note these versions still will have more limitations than V2 counterparts).
Starting June 3, 2024, Chrome will alert Beta, Dev, and Canary build users running Manifest V2 extensions with a warning banner about the impending end of support. Outdated extensions will lose their badges in the Chrome Web Store, and users will be directed to Manifest V3 alternatives. The phase-out will be gradual, with an initial option for users to re-enable V2 extensions temporarily, which will eventually be removed. Chrome Stable users will see these changes roll out over the following months, with completion expected by early 2025, while Enterprise customers can defer these changes until June 2025 using a special policy. Further details can be found on the official Chromium Blog.


time to switch to Firefox, at Desktop and Smartphone too
On both it's much better as compared to Chromium, Only browser on mobile with good support for extensions & that works nicely.
Reply written Jun 2, 2024
At least you can still use Brave for Chromium, as its adblocker shouldn't be affected.
Brave is just reskinned chrome, ublock origin is more powerful than its inbuilt blocker and ublock origin runs best on firefox, win win.
Reply written Jun 2, 2024
Brave is not just reskinned Chrome. They are both based off the Chromium engine.
Yes, uBlock Origins has more functions. But what is your use-case? Firefox is not more private than Brave. Firefox with a bunch of addons makes it more easy to track than stock Brave that already has inbuilt adblockers. If it is just to block advertisements, Brave does just as well as uBlock. What I like about uBlock more is the ability to fine-tune accepted scripts and such on each site. For me, I use Firefox specifically for its extensions I use on a few sites (like bypassing paywalls). Containers are also nice, though Brave profiles probably works better but not as conveniently at separating data.
Firefox you can trust more, because it is open-source. But it is also inherently less secure, and privacy and security go hand-in-hand. The best option currently for daily use is probably Mullvad Browser (based on Firefox) with uBlock and Bitwarden and nothing else. If everyone followed that advice, it would be much more difficult to fingerprint people.
Reply written Jun 2, 2024
Hopefully this will start to push people back to firefox :) Open Source ftw
Yea!
Reply written Jun 2, 2024