Old Manifest V2 Chrome extensions will be disabled in 2024

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49 points·superhumanuser··8 comments

Just yesterday, I encountered another Web site that told me my up-to-date Firefox ESR was somehow too old, and it showed 3 big icons for their "supported" browsers (Chrome, Safari, and MS Edge).

(It was one of those staid non-tech corporate sites that wasn't doing anything beyond forms and a bit of JS, which they could've done 15+ years ago.)

Please don't do these "supported browser" games. Instead, use appropriate Web standards that are supported broadly.

Best viewed in IE making a comeback.

Forgot to connect that to the post... Even if Firefox fights the good fight for things like better countermeasures against corporate surveillance, we need many of us to be using Firefox, and to not be developing Web sites that gratuitously support only the most corporate-controlled browsers.

I agree but it's cheaper for a company to look at % of usage and optimize for that. For internal websites, my company generally doesn't bother with supporting Firefox. It isn't worth the price to test it, especially when it's crappy quality internal websites built by people with no expertise.

Sucks, but that's just reality. I spoof my user-agent on those.

User Agent Spoofing

That stops working eventually. Possibly soon. So, many techbros should be running Firefox, and we should be building things that embrace genuine standards.

A newer post with more comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38298502 "Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024 (reddit.com)"

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