It appears that Manifest V2 support will be removed sometime in 2024 now at the earliest, but it is still possible that the change will be delayed again. Google will give developers at least 6 months 'of heads-up' before it will even start experimenting with turning of Manifest V2 support in the browser. Google admits that it is 'still working on the timeline of the MV2 phase-out plan' and that it plans to publish a new timeline in the coming months.Ĭhrome extension developers will have 'sufficient migration time' before any changes are made to Manifest V2 support in Chrome.

Now, three months later, Google provided a bit of clarity in a post on the official mailing list. In December 2022, Google announced that it would postpone the January 2023 changes and all following changes. Google planned to disable support for running Manifest V2 extensions by January 2023, but announced in December 2022 that it would postpone the change. In 2021, for instance, Google announced that it would stop accepting new Manifest V2 extensions by January 2022 and would disable these extensions in June 2023 in Chrome. Google tweaked and changed the draft and postponed testing and the rollout of Manifest V3, and the retirement of Manifest V2 support, several times. Several extension developers stated back then that if Manifest V3 would roll out like initially intended, it could mean the end of content blocking in Chrome. In Google's case, Manifest V3 was clearly intended to limit content blockers. Manifest files define the capabilities of browser extensions, and any changes made to them can make or break extensions. Google published an early draft of Manifest V3 for Chrome extensions in January 2019.

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