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Brave said they will keep the v2 capability in their Chromium fork "as long as it's possible" (paraphrasing, I can't find the exact tweet to quote).

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Does Brave have their own extension repository yet, or are they still leaving that all up to Google? I don't see much value in Brave supporting a feature dropped from Chrome if it only has Chrome extensions and they all drop support for it anyway.

this kind of thing is why we need firefox, not chromium fork X.

firefox said that they will move to V3 as an effort to maximize browser compatibility

Firefox has said they will implement V3, but "we will diverge from Chrome’s implementation where we think it matters and our values point to a different solution."

Specifically, "we have decided to implement DNR and continue maintaining support for blocking webRequest. Our initial goal for implementing DNR is to provide compatibility with Chrome so developers do not have to support multiple code bases if they do not want to. With both APIs supported in Firefox, developers can choose the approach that works best for them and their users."

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/05/27/manifest-v3-updat...

Microsoft does, and it has just about everything that I use. Huge opportunity for them. None of the smaller vendors have their own extension store.

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