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Google has shipped Manifest v3 in Chrome Canary, which severily limits how extensions are allowed to block and modify requests. What is Microsoft's plan regarding Manifest v3 in Edge Chromium, are they going to deprecate the blocking capabilities of the webRequest API?

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here are some more infos about manifest v3 and edge chromium:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Manifest-...

and

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c094uf/hi_reddit_were...

as its not a clear statement that they will support manifest v2, they definitely are going to support extensions with the strong ability for blocking ads.

What will happen to manifest v2 extensions once manifest v3 lands in Chrome stable? Will they suddenly stop working or would there be a time period to update them?

Nothing. The plans for the deprecation and removal of support for v2 have not been announced yet, see: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/migrating_to_manifes...

Is it easier to submit extensions to the Microsoft store? Last time I looked it was very closed off to a selection of hand picked extensions. To be fair this was probably over a year ago.

There is no public service yet for submitting extensions: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/How-do-yo...

Don't think so, at least not yet... on the flip side, about 3/4 of the extensions I tried from the chrome store did work without issue.

Aside: I do like the edge ux slightly better than chrome itself at this point.. still not a daily driver, but very close.

You can use chrome extensions without issue. At least all of the extensions I am using right now came from the chrome store.

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