Chrome's Manifest V3 transition is here. First up are warnings for any V2 extensions.

Reminder to switch browsers if you haven’t already!

  • Google Chrome is starting to phase out older, more capable ad blocking extensions in favor of the more limited Manifest V3 system.
  • The Manifest V3 system has been criticized by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation for restricting the capabilities of web extensions.
  • Google has made concessions to Manifest V3, but limitations on content filtering remain a source of skepticism and concern.
  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    6 months ago

    Nope, it doesn’t count. The only reason Safari/WebKit isn’t considered a fork of Chrome/Blink is that Chrome/Blink is a fork of Safari/WebKit instead.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      I’m sure they’ve diverged enough for it to be pretty significant compared to the Chromium browsers

    • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      They’ve been separate for over a decade, and even before that they were heavily customizing it. They’re cousins, but absolutely not close enough at this point to be considered the same.

    • brbpostingEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      So it wasn’t, like, forked hard enough that now after the years it counts as a different browser? Expect it to render pages ‘n’ stuff pretty much like Chrome?

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        I admit, I haven’t really looked into it. It’s possible Apple implemented new HTML/CSS/JS standards independently, but it’s also possible that Apple continued to backport Google’s changes. Unless they had a business goal of being independent (or NIH syndrome) I would guess that they’d do mostly the latter, but you’d have to go read the code to know for sure.

        They are definitely still more related to each other than either is to Gecko (which is to say, not related at all), though.