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Some extensions may be turned off – they still use Manifest v2. For now, you can turn them back on, but at some point that ability will go away.

Plus, Mozilla plans to continue to support Manifest V2 in Firefox. Other browser makers, including Opera, Brave, and Vivaldi, also still allow extensions that are persona non grata with Google.

This change is part of Google’s ongoing efforts to phase out Manifest V2, which officially lost support in October 2023 and which it wants to sweep away for good in the coming months.

Google has begun disabling uBlock Origin and other extensions that rely on its outdated Manifest V2 framework, leaving millions of Chrome users scrambling for alternatives as the company fully ...

Key extensions disabled As Google phases out Manifest V2, Chrome users are seeing popular extensions, including uBlock Origin, become obsolete.

Chrome's Manifest V3 transition is actively disabling Manifest V2 extensions, notably uBlock Origin, with users receiving "no longer supported" warnings. Despite the warnings and automatic disabling, ...

These changes come as Google migrates Chrome away from the now defunct Manifest V2 specification. Support is being killed not just for uBlock Origin, but for any extension that hasn’t (or is ...

The popular ad blocking extension ' uBlock Origin ' relies on the functions of the extension specification 'Manifest V2', so it will become unusable when Google Chrome switches to Manifest V3.

Opera recently announced that it'll continue supporting uBlock Origin running the Manifest V2 framework alongside its native ad blocker by making special modifications to Chromium's codebase.

Installation no longer possible in some cases Google is apparently switching off Manifest V2 support in waves. On our test systems, the Chrome Web Store still spits out the previous message: "This ...