Greetings Insiders, In continuation of our commitment to reduce fragmentation of the web for all developers and create better web compatibility for our customers, we plan to support the Declarative Net Request API and other changes proposed as part of Manifest V3. The decision to embrace Manifest V3 changes is based on our dedication to enhancing privacy, security & performance for the benefit of our end-users as well as to allow developers to extend & provide rich experiences in Microsoft Edge. These changes are available for testing in the Beta and Stable channels. To read the official announcement, check out our blog post, and for more technical details please refer to this document. We're eager to hear your feedback, so feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below! - The Microsoft Edge Product Team

Manifest V3 introduces new security concepts that improve user privacy and security. Extensions may no longer use remotely hosted code, controls are introduced to allow or restrict extension access to websites at runtime, and extensions will have the same permissions as the page they are injected into. these are great security improvements being added. and honestly, we can afford to see 3rd party adblockers' abilities being limited after this, Microsoft Edge has built in tracking prevention that is on par with some of the great blocker extensions.

Deleted Even if browser provides great level of security and privacy , in many cases due to privacy and security issues with extensions , users would be at risk.Therefore, such feature is very valuable.It also blocks great deal of attacks and malicious actors.Some developers might complain and not happy with these improvements, but user's privacy and security are higher priority.

This is why manifest V3 to tighten the security is a must have. there are devious extension developers out there, even when the extension is open source, they can do malicious stuff.https://www.ghacks.net/2020/10/16/time-to-remove-nano-adblocker-and-defender-from-your-browsers-except-firefox/ The developer of the extension revealed on the official GitHub that he decided to sell the extension twelve days ago to two Turkish developers. The new owners uploaded a new version to the Chrome store, and careful analysis of the code of the extension revealed that it contained a new connect.js file that did not come from the project's GitHub page. Hill provided an analysis of the code and discovered that the new code allowed the developers to submit user activity and data to remote servers. The extension is now designed to lookup specific information from your outgoing network requests according to an externally configurable heuristics and send it to https://def.dev-nano[dot]com Hill suggested that users uninstall Nano Defender / Nano Adblocker immediately to block data from being submitted to the new owners.I don't think anyone should 100% trust any 3rd party extension developer or complain for additional securities such as the ones outlined in manifest V3 that protects users.

the web speech api is support?your replied said next week....https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/web-speech-api-support/m-p/1740172#M35940

Manifest V3 changes are now available in Microsoft Edge

KatsuYama
Copper Contributor
Mar 02, 2022
Google Chrome migrate timeline is public, but is Microsoft Edge migrate timeline still undecided?
I searched for information, but couldn't find it.
bradcush
Copper Contributor
Apr 13, 2021
When will the "Edge Add-ons" store support uploading and listing of MV3 extensions? They are currently supported by the latest versions of Edge itself after recent Chromium updates but the store is currently not allowing the upload of these extensions.

> "Package acceptance validation error: Only manifest version 2 is supported. Error code: manifest_version: 3 Line: 5 Column: 25"

As there are new APIs only being developed for MV3 which Edge is supporting currently it would be great to be able to list these extensions showing off those new APIs and features specifically for Edge.
HotCakeX
MVP
Oct 18, 2020
This is why manifest V3 to tighten the security is a must have. there are devious extension developers out there, even when the extension is open source, they can do malicious stuff.

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/10/16/time-to-remove-nano-adblocker-and-defender-from-your-browsers-except-firefox/

The developer of the extension revealed on the official GitHub that he decided to sell the extension twelve days ago to two Turkish developers.

The new owners uploaded a new version to the Chrome store, and careful analysis of the code of the extension revealed that it contained a new connect.js file that did not come from the project's GitHub page.

Hill provided an analysis of the code and discovered that the new code allowed the developers to submit user activity and data to remote servers.

The extension is now designed to lookup specific information from your outgoing network requests according to an externally configurable heuristics and send it to
https://def.dev-nano[dot]com

Hill suggested that users uninstall Nano Defender / Nano Adblocker immediately to block data from being submitted to the new owners.

I don't think anyone should 100% trust any 3rd party extension developer or complain for additional securities such as the ones outlined in manifest V3 that protects users.
- 4qwerty7
  Copper Contributor
  May 11, 2022
  HotCakeX
  Your example just shows that the extension reviewers of chrome are incompetent.
  However, the security provided by V3 relies heavily on the ability of reviewers - because hard restrictions introduced by V3 can be bypassed easily by hacking techniques such as evaljs.
Alexei_Drekker
Iron Contributor
Oct 15, 2020
Well, that's disappointing.
- HotCakeX
  MVP
  Oct 16, 2020
  Which part?
Reza_Ameri-Archived
Bronze Contributor
Oct 15, 2020
Deleted
Even if browser provides great level of security and privacy , in many cases due to privacy and security issues with extensions , users would be at risk.
Therefore, such feature is very valuable.
It also blocks great deal of attacks and malicious actors.
Some developers might complain and not happy with these improvements, but user's privacy and security are higher priority.
- HotCakeX
  MVP
  Oct 15, 2020
  Reza_Ameri-Archived
  The same potential developers that might complain themselves create extensions that protect user privacy and security from 3rd party websites.
  - eguif
    Steel Contributor
    Oct 16, 2020
    Hello HotCakeX
    
    There is despair on reddit
    https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/jbrffh/manifest_v3_changes_are_now_available_to_test_in/
HotCakeX
MVP
Oct 15, 2020

Manifest V3 introduces new security concepts that improve user privacy and security. Extensions may no longer use remotely hosted code, controls are introduced to allow or restrict extension access to websites at runtime, and extensions will have the same permissions as the page they are injected into.

these are great security improvements being added.

and honestly, we can afford to see 3rd party adblockers' abilities being limited after this, Microsoft Edge has built in tracking prevention that is on par with some of the great blocker extensions.
HenryLin
Brass Contributor
Oct 15, 2020
the web speech api is support?

your replied said next week....
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/web-speech-api-support/m-p/1740172#M35940

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