Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.

Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    134·
    2 days ago

    First, screw Chrome.

    BUT. These headlines are clickbait.

    UBO has been disabled in Chrome for a long, long time. This is nothing new. Its old news.

    Ublock Lite replaced it, and it’s not going away. It’s inferior and problematic and harder on devs, yes, but unfortunately Chrome users didn’t seem notice.

    What’s being disabled is a crazy-difficult-to-enable flag that basically zero Chrome users actually used, and that only (a few) downstream Chromium forks use.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        You have to launch Chrome with this command-line argument:

        --disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported,ExtensionManifestV2Disabled

        And then, I think you have to re-enable it with config flags as well:

        chrome://flags/#extension-manifest-v2-deprecation-warning         [Disabled]
chrome://flags/#extension-manifest-v2-deprecation-disabled        [Disabled]
chrome://flags/#extension-manifest-v2-deprecation-unsupported     [Disabled]
chrome://flags/#allow-legacy-mv2-extensions                       [Enabled]

        I have not tried this personally, though.