The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months

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Ad-Verse: Google announced the transition from Manifest V2 browser add-ons a few years ago, but kept a few well-known "secrets" available to support legacy extensions. Now, Chromium developers have explained that MV2-based extensions are completely going away in just a few weeks.

Starting with the next major release, Chromium will stop supporting Manifest V2 extensions. The change will affect users who have clung to uBlock Origin in Chrome, Edge, and other major web browsers based on Chromium. Even Opera, despite stating otherwise, will soon lose this capability.

Chromium contributor Anton Bershanskiy recently highlighted how the newest Chrome release (149) is going to be the last offering some sort of MV2 compatibility. The developer quoted a recent commit by Chromium programmer Devlin Cronin, who stated that future releases are going to remove the "kExtensionManifestV2Disabled" feature from the engine's code base.