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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.

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[–] timewarp@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago

uBlock Origin Light works fine. In fact I prefer it for the most part. They should have found better ways to provide the exact same features in MV3 though even if that meant additional warnings or prompts. I get why declarative requests provide more privacy and safety, but there will always be power users who'd rather have more choice.

[–] rklm@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (27 children)

I see a lot of comments (justifiably) touting firefox's superiority... but the performance difference is night and day.

My main pc has very weak hardware, and my browser is the most resource intensive application I run. In my environment, I can't leave firefox open with other heavy apps running simultaneously, but I can leave chrome open.

I've used firefox for decades in the past, but the gap is huge and it doesn't look like Mozilla will make the engine changes necessary to close it. Idk if things have changed, but I remember when they axed the Servo team.

I've been using Ungoogled Chromium and I'm hoping this doesn't affect me for a while... but if I have to choose between ads and closing my browser to run heavy apps, I guess I'll be reinstalling firefox.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 0 points 1 day ago

same, chromium is much faster on a core2duo..

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Brave and Vivaldi have built-in ad blockers. Brave’s is based on uBO; Vivaldi’s is based on ABP.

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