Chrome 102 - the omnibox API and my MDN Search extension

[Jackie Han]

Hi all, today Chrome 102 is rolling out.

1. Chrome 102 fixed a critical bug about the omnibox API. Now you can use it in MV3, like below in the manifest.json:

{

    ...

    "manifest_version": 3,

    "minimum_chrome_version": "102",

    "omnibox": {
        "keyword": "xxx"
    },

    ...

}

2. Sharing my new extension: MDN Search.

Install links: Chrome (MV3), Firefox (MV2).

It supplies MDN Web Docs search function with autocomplete in the browser address bar.

In addition to HTML/CSS/JS references, you can also search the extensions api, since MDN also includes the webextensions api.

Because it only uses the omnibox API and is very simple, it is the same code for both MV2 and MV3.

Jackie Han

[Stefan vd]

Hi there,

Thank you for the update!

So my browser extension such as Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension can use this now in manifest v3.

Thanks,

Stefan vd

[Jackie Han]

Not only Omnibox API, there are more capacities or bug fixes in Chrome 102.

Look at What's new https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/whatsnew/