Google Chrome is looking to finish off the various bypasses that help uBlock Origin and other such MV2 extensions to keep functioning. Edge and Opera could soon follow too.

For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.

What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.

  • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Links2 is not as funny to use, but it is easier to understand. It supports a graphical interface and images. I use it from time to time and it’s nice when you know what you are looking for…

    I used them cause my PC had 384 MB of RAM in 2012. It was ok for everything but surfing the web and lynx solved the issue.

    If you are looking for something for the phone, i once used Vivaldi.

      • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        3 128 MB sticks… terrible times…

        In that time i had to experiment with different GUIs to reduce RAM usage. Xfce4 and i3 saved my day honestly.

        For gaming i had to go back for the roots, dosbox was the savior of the day: Alone in the dark, dune 2000 (was it dos?), conquest of the new world and the old XCOM. Also, some old games that probably dont have support anymore that had linux support: ASCIIsector and star commander.