Chrome now indicates which extensions will no longer be supported with the transition to Manifest V3

Jul 29. (Portaltic/EP) –

Google has begun alerting users that it’s possible that some of the extensions installed in Chrome “will stop being admitted soon”, a change that is due to the browser’s transition to Manifest V3.

Manifest V3 is the new version that the Chrome extensions platform will adopt, with which Google intends to increase security by offering greater transparency with the permissions requested by extensions installed in the browser. It is also designed to improve the functioning of these add-ons.

This update will therefore replace the obsolete version, Manifest V2, so that extensions that are not compatible with V3 will begin to be retired, as Google announced a few months ago.

Specifically, the firm shared a roadmap in which it marked June 2024 as the month in which these changes would begin and, at the beginning of last month, it confirmed that it was ready to adopt them.

With the beginning of This transitiondevelopers who still have their extensions based on Manifest V2 will see a notification in the Chrome Beta, Dev and Canary channels warning that will soon no longer be supported.

This warning has started to reach users through the Extensions section installed in their browser, as some users have been able to verify. Reddit and Europa Press. This message indicates that some of them “may” automatically stop being supported. The message is followed by the add-ons that will in principle no longer be supported.

The screen allows you to both indicate that the message has been understood and search for alternatives to these applications in the Chrome Web Store. It also offers the options ‘Keep for now’ and ‘Preserve for now’. ‘Uninstall from Chrome’.