Google will deprecate Manifest V2 extensions in Chrome by June 2024

[stardepp]

@Pathduck

Finally but how do I know which extensions these are, are they sorted alphabetically?

[stardepp]

I've found it:

[Pathduck]

@stardepp Yes, it's too bad the extension info page does not say what version of the manifest is used...

[DoctorG]

@stardepp grep.

[barbudo2005]

@Pathduck

I recommend changing "I don't care about cookies" to the fork "I still don't care about cookies":

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/i-still-dont-care-about-c/edibdbjcniadpccecjdfdjjppcpchdlm

https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies

"Why fork?
This extension has been acquired by Avast and I simply don't trust Avast with my data. Additionally, having it on Github allows us to improve the code and add support for websites faster."

I imagine the biggest problem when "Winter has arrived" will be uBO. Is the Vivaldi team making progress on this issue?

[Pathduck]

@barbudo2005 I am aware of the "huge controversy" - but honestly "I don't care" (I use Avast anyway...)

Looks like they actually have a v3 manifest so I might be forced to change at some point anyway.

[barbudo2005]

@Pathduck Said:

I am aware of the "huge controversy" - but honestly "I don't care" (I use Avast anyway...)

Good to hear it from a Moderator, especially for people who are always worried about these issues.

[LonM]

You can type chrome://chrome-urls in the address bar and click on vivaldi://extensions-internals (for some reason typing that URL directly did not work).

Then do a Ctrl+F search for manifest_version": 2 or manifest_version": 3. Going through the results, the name is listed after the version.

Nearly every single one of my extensions is listed as version 2.

[luetage]

@LonM Because it’s chrome://extensions-internals, same thing as with vivaldi/chrome settings page.

[Greenphlem]

Can someone explain how this will impact Vivaldi? Is manifest v3 built into Chromium? Or can Vivaldi continue using v2?

[ybjrepnfr]

Google will deprecate Manifest V2 extensions in Chrome by June 2024

...whistles quietly to herself...

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/89504/floorp
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/92493/arching-floorpians

[lfisk]

Read this on Mastodon that Brave will continue to support uBlock Origin and uMatrix:

Brave
@[email protected]
We've seen the headlines about Google killing ad blockers.

Two important points:
1. Google's changes will not stop Brave from blocking ads.
2. We will support uBlock Origin and uMatrix even after Chrome stops doing so.

Nov 18, 2023, 16:02 · 

@[email protected] message

Vivaldi planning on this too???

[Catweazle]

@lfisk, I think so, at least with its own inbuild adblocker.
PS. uMatrix is fine, but discontinued since several years, apart an unfixed vulnerability. Still in the stores, but not so recommend to use it because of this.

Gorhill said:

Anyway, as it is, I've archived uMatrix's repo, I can't and won't be spending any more time on this project, and neither on all such issues.

Whoever is free to fork under a new name -- I may re-open and resume development in some future if ever I feel for it.

[lfisk]

@Catweazle Just passing on what Brave is claiming right now...

I'm interested in uBlock Origin. I block ads on my own with just a couple of uBlock's lists enabled. A lot of them are targeted with css in "my filters". Really NEED to have uBlock working. So much so I'll move to Firefox or something else if Vivaldi quits supporting uBlock in its current form.

I'm not stating this as a threat, just what I'll end up doing Can't imagine running a Browser nowadays without something like uBlock to tame down, control malicious websites

[barbudo2005]

@lfisk Said:

I'm interested in uBlock Origin.

It would be good to know how Brave is going to keep uBO running?

[lfisk]

@barbudo2005 Me too... guessing they figure on altering Chromium code to either remove Manifest 3 changes or maybe just something that permits uBlock to work

If you follow the Mastodon link there was some terse discussion but nothing definite when I last read it...

[Streptococcus]

How would I get the Mac terminal to give me a list of the files containing that string and the string itself? I got as far as getting a list of files containing the string "manifest_version", but I could not get the string itself plus the following number to be listed.

[Pathduck]

@Streptococcus Did you try the grep? Isn't MacOS terminal just a bash shell?

What command do you run, where do you run it and what is the output?

[Streptococcus]

The code I used:

cd ~/Library/"Application Support"/Vivaldi/Default/Extensions
grep -l "manifest_version" */*/manifest.json

I got a listing of the files containing that string but not of the string and its following number.

[Pathduck]

@Streptococcus Yeah but that's not the command I posted is it.

   -l, --files-with-matches
          Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each
          input file from which output would normally have been
          printed.  Scanning each input file stops upon first match.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/grep.1.html