Google Is Changing How Chrome Extensions Work, and Could Disable Some of Your Favorites
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Among the factors Google Chrome is such a popular web browser is that it's supported by a wealth of beneficial third-party extensions and plug-ins, including additional performance and functions on top of the primary web browser itself. Now Google is making a substantial modification to the method extensions work, and it might impact some essential ones you've got set up.It's all to do with the standards that extensions should follow to operate in Chrome: Google is now retiring the old Manifest V2 specification and moving whatever over to the more recent Manifest V3 specification. In Google's words, V3 brings with it upgrades to the "security, personal privacy, efficiency and dependability of the extension community as an entire"-- and at the very sa...