04-22-2024, 10:47 AM
This is a feature request to keep ManifestV2 extension support.
Google has already announced the switchover to ManifestV3 is going to happen this June (2024). It's happening in two months.
uBlock Origin will not be ported to ManifestV3 because the new API doesn't have the features to allow that. uBlock Origin Lite, a ManifestV3 port, has very limited features and can't be a decent substitute of the original ManifestV2 uBlock Origin. I think uBlock Origin is the most important extension for an advanced user. It has many features and deep level of configurability, even via group policies (automatic deployment).
There might be other extensions as well that can't migrate to ManifestV3 for the same reason, so that's why it would be important for a browser like Cent, aimed for Advanced users, to keep ManifestV2.
The code will be in Chromium until 2025 June as enterprise deployments can keep V2 extensions via a group policy. I think one year is enough to figure out how to have a continued support for ManifestV2 extensions thereafter. Firefox has already announced to keep ManifestV2 support, so Cent keeping it could guarantee that we'll not lose any users in favor of Firefox.
Google has already announced the switchover to ManifestV3 is going to happen this June (2024). It's happening in two months.
uBlock Origin will not be ported to ManifestV3 because the new API doesn't have the features to allow that. uBlock Origin Lite, a ManifestV3 port, has very limited features and can't be a decent substitute of the original ManifestV2 uBlock Origin. I think uBlock Origin is the most important extension for an advanced user. It has many features and deep level of configurability, even via group policies (automatic deployment).
There might be other extensions as well that can't migrate to ManifestV3 for the same reason, so that's why it would be important for a browser like Cent, aimed for Advanced users, to keep ManifestV2.
The code will be in Chromium until 2025 June as enterprise deployments can keep V2 extensions via a group policy. I think one year is enough to figure out how to have a continued support for ManifestV2 extensions thereafter. Firefox has already announced to keep ManifestV2 support, so Cent keeping it could guarantee that we'll not lose any users in favor of Firefox.