<story><title>Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E/m/HjaaCIG-BQAJ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lewisjoe</author><text>Great news. One thing that I&amp;#x27;m sure about V3 is that it isn&amp;#x27;t well thought-out at all. For example, imagine your extension has to cache data for a browser session (across tabs but with a single cache), it&amp;#x27;s impossible as of now.&lt;p&gt;The only workaround to do that has a 1MB storage limit, essentially forcing you to have a server-side cache mechanism (redis or whatever) for this trivial use-case.&lt;p&gt;And worse, Google developers essentially refuse to understand the problem - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;chromium&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;detail?id=1185226&amp;amp;q=chrome.storage&amp;amp;can=2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;chromium&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;detail?id=118522...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brucethemoose2</author><text>This seems to be a pattern among Google employees, as least as I&amp;#x27;m seeing from the outside.&lt;p&gt;They have their own company reality bubble, and clashes or inconsistencies with the outside world are met with disbelief.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E/m/HjaaCIG-BQAJ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lewisjoe</author><text>Great news. One thing that I&amp;#x27;m sure about V3 is that it isn&amp;#x27;t well thought-out at all. For example, imagine your extension has to cache data for a browser session (across tabs but with a single cache), it&amp;#x27;s impossible as of now.&lt;p&gt;The only workaround to do that has a 1MB storage limit, essentially forcing you to have a server-side cache mechanism (redis or whatever) for this trivial use-case.&lt;p&gt;And worse, Google developers essentially refuse to understand the problem - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;chromium&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;detail?id=1185226&amp;amp;q=chrome.storage&amp;amp;can=2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;chromium&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;detail?id=118522...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whstl</author><text>It is hubris. Google thinks it can get away with anything, since they&amp;#x27;re the market leader. The reality is that a certain number of people will migrate to Firefox over AdBlockers not working well anymore, and will give FF a second life. And those are the people who helped get Chrome off the ground by installing on the computers of relatives and recommending to friends.</text></comment>