Here's a bit of good news: You can keep ManifestV2 enabled till 2025 in Chrome and Edge and keep working uBlock Origin and other extensions. Chrome developers has provided an option to keep ManifestV2 along its third incarnation. This will allow you to run all your favorite page modifiers, ad filters, and similar extensions for an extra year.
Category: Google Chrome
Google is testing Compact Mode for Google Chrome on desktop
Google is working on a compact mode in the Chrome browser. It aims at offering an alternative UI that should free up more space on screen and reduce control padding. This way, the browser will get more room to display the web content. At the moment, the feature is only available in the desktop branch of the browser.
Google is about add a built-in AI in the Chrome browser that will work locally
Google is about to run an experiment with built-in artificial intelligence in the Chrome browser. Currently, the company invited participants to join a closed test of embedding a large machine learning language model into Chrome.
Google Chrome warns that uBlock Origin will soon stop working
Users who installed the latest Google Chrome version now see a warning that uBlock Origin will soon stop working and it's time to find it an alternative. The browser will disable Manifest v2 extensions in the near future, and uBlock Origin is one of them.
How to Enable Tab Performance Issue Notification in Google Chrome
Google Chrome has got a new option to show a performance issue notification for tab resource usage which you can enable with ease. The change is already available in Canary version, but soon it will land in the stable branch. The latter just updated to Chrome 127.
Chrome 127 released, will ask you to provide passwords for encrypted archives you download
Google Chrome 127 is available in the stable channel. The release it focused on security. It improves the Ingonito mode by enabling HTTPS-First by default. Google is also starts killing Manifest V2 in flavor of Manifest V3, with the latter being not friendly to ad blockers. Finally, there are some changes to Safe Browsing. First of all, the browser will now ask a password for encrypted archives. If you specify it, Chrome will send the contents to Google to check the files for safety. Also, Enhanced protection now includes extra telemetry that checks some pages against a block list.
Google cancels the third-party cookie removal from Chrome
Disabling third-party cookies in Chrome will become optional. After years of testing, Google has abandoned its plan to disable third-party cookie tracking by default in the Chrome browser.
Chrome will require you to specify why you need to download a suspicious file
Google has updated Chrome's policy on handling files that could be risky or unfamiliar. The browser will now prompt users to explain why they are downloading a file flagged as "malicious."
Google Chrome will allow Isolated Web App access sensitive USB devices
Google is working on a new feature called Unrestricted WebUSB that allows trusted sandboxed web apps to bypass security restrictions in the WebUSB API.
Chrome 126 released with OCR in PDF and Google Lens on Desktop
Google has released Chrome 126 to everyone running the stable version of the browser. It features a new "Extract text from PDF" option in the integrated PDF view, a new option to search with Google Lens for anything you see on the screen, the ability to fine grain tune Memory Saver, and "Reactive prefetch" for embedded resources to speed up their loading. Also, there are a number of improvements made to its Dev Tools. The latter includes the ability to emulate PC slowdown.
