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Firefox continues Manifest V2 support as Chrome disables MV2 ad-blockers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

From the article ...

Although many ad-blockers have migrated to Manifest V3 versions, these are generally less capable of detecting and blocking promoted targeted content.

Although Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari have all adopted MV3, they have done so with their own implementation modifications, allowing users greater freedom while still benefiting from the security enhancements.

Still, support for MV2 is the only way to go for older add-ons, and Firefox reiterated via an announcement today that it will continue to support it in the foreseeable future.

"While some browsers are phasing out Manifest V2 entirely, Firefox is keeping it alongside Manifest V3," said Mozilla.

Glad to hear Firefox is doing the dual-support thing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Firefox made a big mistake of breaking ad-on compatibility in the past. Let’s not make that mistake again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you're talking about the protocol that allowed things like flash, that was the right decision and the web is much better off without it. It was a security nightmare and no functionality was lost in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

No, I’m talking about a whole add-on ecosystem that they killed back then. Flash was always garbage. But, I remember lots of plug-ins like FasterFox just stopped working and some developers felt that porting to the newer API wasn’t worth it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

RIP Autohide. Never used full screen again after Firefox version 4.

[–] adarza 2 points 3 days ago

foreseeable future

sometime in the not-to-distant future, like when default search engine contract is due for renewal:

google: "remember when you tried a different default search engine? that didn't go over so well--for you. your rep tanked and you bled users the entire time. disable mv2 or you'll be paying us for the privilege of even having google search in your browser at all."