13 Mar 2025

Manifest v2 in chrome/chromium browser

Google started to phase-out their browser extension interface called manifest v2. As for today, manifest v2 is disabled by default, all extension that are based on manifest v2 are inactive. Until June 2025 this interface can be temporary enabled. It requires adding entry to file ExtensionManifestV2Availability.json.

(root) $ mkdir -p /etc/chromium-browser/policies/managed/
(root) $ echo '{ "ExtensionManifestV2Availability": 2 }' | tee -a /etc/chromium-browser/policies/managed/ExtensionManifestV2Availability.json
release date: 13 Mar 2025
language: en
stage: release
type: note
tags: chrome