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zmni
Brass Contributor
May 30, 2019

Manifest V3: Web Request Changes

So, Google plan to introduce manifest v3 that limit extensions blocking capability by removing webRequest API and replacing it with super limited declarativeNetRequest.   Please, please don't remov...
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dragoonies
Copper Contributor
May 31, 2019

Agreed. As much as I like Edge and Chromium Edge, without uBlock or something similar, I'd have to switch over to Firefox. zmni 

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    Broadband
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 03, 2019

    This recent digging in of Google in regards to Manifest V3 has me equally concerned.

     

    I switched from Firefox to Edge Insider and absolutely love it, but if I an expect to lose functionality in the future I might as well switch back.

     

    Everyone is saying since this will be baked into Chromium you can expect it to roll out to everyone unless there is a distinct fork which increases work to implement new versions. I'd assume with Microsoft switching to Chromium Edge to remove the need to maintain the codebase they'd be unlikely to want to do the same. If I was a manager I'd begrudgingly accept the Manifest V3 changes into my product as the value to cost of losing some power users would likely be much less a hit than the increased workload on my developers.

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