Security News > 2022 > September > Google to test disabling Chrome Manifest V2 extensions in June 2023

Google has announced more details regarding turning off support for the Google Chrome Manifest V2 extension as the company pushes more developers to transition to Manifest V3. An update from the Chrome team says that they will proceed in careful, experimental steps, ensuring a smooth end-user experience during the phase-out of Manifest V2 in June 2023.

In January 2022, the Chrome Web Store stopped accepting new extensions built on Manifest V2. According to the original roll-out timeline released by Google a year ago, starting from January 2023, all extensions built on Manifest V2 would stop working on the Chrome browser.

In January 2023, with the release of Chrome 112, Chrome may run experiments to turn off support for Manifest V2 extensions in Canary, Dev, and Beta channels.

In June 2023, with the release of Chrome 115, Chrome may run experiments to turn off support for Manifest V2 extensions in all channels, including Stable channel.

In January 2024, following the expiry of the Manifest V2 enterprise policy, the Chrome Web Store will remove all remaining Manifest V2 items from the store.

Developers of Google Chrome ad blockers are facing the most obstacles while transitioning their extensions to Manifest V3 as many of the APIs no longer support features required by their extensions.

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