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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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[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Nooo, it is browser on my workplace! How should I work efficiently without uBlock!?!?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Tell IT and your boss how your productivity tanked since edge disabled uBlock.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

Click on all the ads and install all the malware. That will teach them.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

So, unironically, I do plan to request Firefox with uBlock Origin as a reasonable accomodation for my ADHD if I'm not able to use it at a job in the future. Banner ads are genuinely distracting and I have a real disability that makes them worse for me.

[–] Mayoman68@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This might actually reverse firefox's decline in userbase at least in the business world. Any shop that already has multi-OS management could probably insta-switch to firefox, and i'm sure that MS locked-in places could too given enough of a push by IT.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 1 points 18 hours ago

I saw one guy from my it team use a browser without adblock. Please send help

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

🤭yea, and what are we gonna do against it?

We manage everything with azure group policies (therefore use all microsoft). we don’t want an extra system to manage the browser of the employees. Maybe corporations are save from that just a while longer than private user 🤔

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

Intune can manage Firefox add-ons btw, no need to use any extra systems.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

My work insists on using it too. Fuck knows why, maybe it's a security thing? And my personal laptop is constantly nagging me to use edge - it could be the best browser ever and I would still avoid it just because of the pushiness.

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

It's a good Chromium based Windows native browser that has integration with your Entra ID account so all your bookmarks / history is automatically synced and users have seamless experience when switching devices. No longer seeing tickets like ″My bookmarks are gone after I reinstalled my PC″ is enough to consider Edge as your company main browser. And the fact that it is part of OS, you do not need to worry about install and patching.

I prefer Firefox, but from Chromium browsers Edge is really good, you cannot expect companies to suggest something like Vivaldi.

This is for companies being in M365 ecosystem. If you are in Google then I suppose Chrome would make more sense.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago

Yeah, that's fair, I thought it would probably be something like that. TBF it's work, they're paying me, I'll use whatever they choose. I won't have it on my own computer though just because of Microsoft's hard sell

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Less browsing of news articles?

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago

I work in research and development, I have to constantly search the web for stuff