MV2 Soft Deprecation Timeline

[Brian Zindler]

We are in the process of upgrading our users to Manifest V3 and want to know when the soft deprecation (turning extension off by default) of MV2 is rolling out to chrome stable. I see this has already started happening in Canary 130. Will this go out to everyone when 130 reaches stable on Oct 15th? Thank you!

[Oliver Dunk]

Hi Brian,

These experiments aren't tied to any specific Chrome milestone, and are controlled remotely as part of some feature rollout infrastructure used by Chrome.

We don't have a specific date for that next stage I'm afraid but are continuing to move forward over time.

Thanks,

Oliver Dunk | DevRel, Chrome Extensions | https://developer.chrome.com/ | London, GB

On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 10:30 AM 'Brian Zindler' via Chromium Extensions <chromium-...@chromium.org> wrote:

We are in the process of upgrading our users to Manifest V3 and want to know when the soft deprecation (turning extension off by default) of MV2 is rolling out to chrome stable. I see this has already started happening in Canary 130. Will this go out to everyone when 130 reaches stable on Oct 15th? Thank you!

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[Brian Zindler]

Thanks Oliver!

Totally understand that the timeline is in flux. When it ends up moving to stable will there be a Google post/announcement beforehand? I ask because we are moving our users to our new MV3 extension as fast as possible but having an idea for when stable changes allows us to communicate to users and gauge how aggressively we should roll out. 

[Cuyler Stuwe]

Yeah, basically the fundamental issue here seems to be that Google seems to see extension users as “Google’s customers” for them to experiment on directly, rather than seeing extension users as “customers of the extension products of whom Google happens to supply the platform for”.

In other words, Google sees themselves as the “B” in B2C, while extension developers see Google as only the first “B” in B2B2C. Extension developers see Google as skipping over the second “B” in not setting clear deprecation timelines that apply to every “C”.

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[Oliver Dunk]

When it ends up moving to stable will there be a Google post/announcement beforehand?

I can't promise anything at the moment, I'm afraid - we may do so but haven't committed to any specific announcements.

I am keen for us to share periodic updates (in particular in the mailing list) so I'll make sure we share as much as we can.

Oliver Dunk | DevRel, Chrome Extensions | https://developer.chrome.com/ | London, GB