<story><title>Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ranting-moth</author><text>I was writing an extension a few weeks ago. I decided to go with MV3.&lt;p&gt;Most of the examples and documentation said something like &amp;quot;this has been copied from the MV2 documents or example. It might not work.&amp;quot; It was awful.&lt;p&gt;I felt MV3 is really about limiting what the extensions can do.&lt;p&gt;I ended up having it Firefox only and MV2. Probably works in Chrome too, but I wasn&amp;#x27;t going to waste time on it since it was about to be removed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eshack94</author><text>&amp;gt; I felt MV3 is really about limiting what the extensions can do.&lt;p&gt;You felt that way because that&amp;#x27;s exactly what it&amp;#x27;s about. It&amp;#x27;s about doing everything possible to increase ad revenue in the name of &amp;quot;increased security&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ranting-moth</author><text>I was writing an extension a few weeks ago. I decided to go with MV3.&lt;p&gt;Most of the examples and documentation said something like &amp;quot;this has been copied from the MV2 documents or example. It might not work.&amp;quot; It was awful.&lt;p&gt;I felt MV3 is really about limiting what the extensions can do.&lt;p&gt;I ended up having it Firefox only and MV2. Probably works in Chrome too, but I wasn&amp;#x27;t going to waste time on it since it was about to be removed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HellsMaddy</author><text>I developed an extension[1] after the Chrome Store stopped accepting MV2, but before Firefox support for MV3 in stable. I had to write some custom build scripts to build the extension with MV2 for Firefox and MV3 for Chrome. Pretty annoying.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;b0o&amp;#x2F;aws-favicons-webextension&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;b0o&amp;#x2F;aws-favicons-webextension&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>