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Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge (www.neowin.net)
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The latest Edge Canary version started disabling Manifest V2-based extensions with the following message: "This extension is no longer supported. Microsoft Edge recommends that you remove it." Although the browser turns off old extensions without asking, you can still make them work by clicking "Manage extension" and toggling it back (you will have to acknowledge another prompt).

At this point, it is not entirely clear what is going on. Google started phasing out Manifest V2 extensions in June 2024, and it has a clear roadmap for the process. Microsoft's documentation, however, still says "TBD," so the exact dates are not known yet. This leads to some speculating about the situation being one of "unexpected changes" coming from Chromium. Either way, sooner or later, Microsoft will ditch MV2-based extensions, so get ready as we wait for Microsoft to shine some light on its plans.

Another thing worth noting is that the change does not appear to be affecting Edge's stable release or Beta/Dev Channels. For now, only Canary versions disable uBlock Origin and other MV2 extensions, leaving users a way to toggle them back on. Also, the uBlock Origin is still available in the Edge Add-ons store

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[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 30 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Zen was amazing when they first came to light, but they keep changing how workflows work, and it destroyed the workflow I had.

For example, I am a browser minimalist. I don't need workspaces, and I don't have thousands of tabs open, because that's insane to me, personally. I now have to see the ugly Default Workspace at the top of my tab bar every time I go to open or switch tabs. This was an option before, so it was perfectly fine. They've taken that option away, which is very much not okay. Options are good. They also messed around with the New Tab icon, making it to where I couldn't move it to the bottom where I prefer it to be, instead putting it at the top, which is extra movement needed to get to the top.. They later added that back in, but again, why the fuck are you just willy nilly taking options away from people? It should just be an OPTION.

Anyway, I've had so many headaches with their approach to changing workflows that I don't even recommend it to anyone any longer. I'm sure I'm just the crazy person who wants some of the offerings, while not being FORCED to use some of the others. :)

[–] warm@kbin.earth 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, I hate how projects become allergic to options. If you want to push your own agenda with new defaults, okay fine, but never ever remove options, let people keep it how they liked it.

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

I saw in their notes for the previous updates about the workspaces, which essentially said "workspaces are a major part of Zen, so you are no longer allowed to NOT use them". When it was clearly a viable option before. So much for being customizable!

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Infinite options is bad design for a number of reasons. One is that when everyone's experience is unique, troubleshooting is impossible. Two is that when you add an option, you have to support that option forever.

Options are expensive, at least if you want to keep your software working for a long period of time.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 7 points 1 day ago

Then adding too many options is the problem, not having options in the first place.

[–] darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

To be fair it's still alpha software, things are basically guaranteed to change until they reach a stable state. I've enjoyed it so far though

[–] Spaniard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In floorp you can remove the workspace button from the top and disable them altogether I think.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can remove that, i don’t see any workspaces

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have a feeling you might be one of those that turned their automatic updates off after an issue where they really, really fucked the UI up on Macs, or something like that. Or you might be a person who doesn't like the auto updates anywhere.

I turned mine off for awhile, but don't want to catch anything when a new FF release rolls out, so I turned them back on, especially since I rarely use the browser anymore due to said changes with no user options.

I'm on the latest version on Windows, Linux, and Mac. The option is gone, I'm afraid.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m on the latest version try installing this Zen Mod that lets you remove anything https://zen-browser.app/mods/ab9b529c-63d6-48c0-a59a-4a407c5c3129/

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While I really appreciate you for helping, the fact that these were part of the core application, then taken away by the developers so that we rely on third parties to bring back, is my biggest gripe with the browser. The options were there, and they took them out. I would rather just go back to Firefox than deal with an always changing UI, and removal of options. :/

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

I understand that feeling although they do mention it’s a browser in alpha still so i don’t judge them too harshly for it